reading tosca - cie. toula limnaios

»the spectacular final tableau swept the audience off their feet into ecstatic rounds of applause.« faz

»reading tosca« – an exciting new choreographic reading of the puccini opera – is not a staging of this opera but rather a contemporary new composition in movement and sound. in a polyphonic tableau the choreography unifies cruel poetry and discord, horrific images, sensitive portraits and increasingly ironic and critical reflections of society. puccini’s composition is deconstructed and the smallest particles appear as though originating from a hidden space. thus the music is also a poetic metaphor of fragility as well as a mirror of the opera’s inherent destructive power. reality, desires and visions fall to pieces. in »reading tosca« everything can be reversed into its opposite; violence, torture, feelings of powerlessness, uncertainty and desire are intertwined into a brutal world full of inner conflicts.

a co-production by bregenzer festspielen, bregenzer frühling, künstlerhaus mousonturm frankfurt/main and cie. toula limnaios. supported by the npn.

tours: bregenzer festspiele, frankfurt/main, berlin, hameln, krefeld, quito/ecuador, cartagena/spanien, nürnberg, ludwigshafen.

»a choreographically convincing reading of the opera from the dancers’ perspective is the result. toula limnaios proves to be a choreographer with fantasy and a clearsighted interpreter of puccini’s opera.« neue züricher zeitung

concept/choreography toula limnaios music ralf r. ollertz, giacomo puccini dance/creation mercedes appugliese, fleur conlon, elik niv, kayoko minami, clebio oliveira, ute pliestermann, hironori sugata light design klaus dust, jan langebartels costumes antonia limnaios, toula limnaios

cie. toula limnaios

reading tosca 2008

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