Tosca (2019)

Anja Harteros excels in the title role of Michael Sturmingers cinematic staging of Puccinis Tosca the centrepiece of Salzburg Easter Festival Aleksandrs Antoņenko compellingly portrays Cavaradossi while Ludovic Tézier is a thrillingly malevolent Scarpia Christian Thielemann leads the Staatskapelle Dresden Tosca is a political thriller with a heartbreaking love story that gives a vivid account of the harassment of artists political persecution torture and arbitrary executions In Salzburg it is set in the Mafiosi world of modern day Rome and is the perfect thriller reminiscent of Scorseses Goodfellas Kleine Zeitung a film noir