Tosca - the epitome of Italian opera. It is a thrilling story about desire passion and death.
A story about one beloved woman and two men who fight a duel - one of them is an angel and the
other one a demon. Benoît Jacquot the successful French film director does not create a stage
performance but an opera for the cinema in 2001. A bold idea and an exciting venture - he loves
his actors the close-up shots and he has developed his own style as it turned out in many
other of his films before. The result is a wonderful production of one of Puccini's greatest
operas with an amazing set design beautiful costumes and an emotional performance by Angela
Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna the opera dream couple at that time in the main roles and
Ruggero Raimondi as counterpart. The worldwide first 35mm-celluloid opera film in 4k.
