"Toska" opera broadcast will be available on the online-platfrom of the Mariinsky theatre today at 9 PM.

Music by Giacomo Puccini. Libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa after the play of the same name by Victorien Sardou. World premiere: 14 January 1900, Teatro Costanzi, Rome. Premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre: 23 October 1994.

Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1887 French-language dramatic play, La Tosca, is a melodramatic piece set in Rome in June 1800, with the Kingdom of Naples's control of Rome threatened by Napoleon's invasion of Italy. It contains depictions of torture, murder and suicide, as well as some of Puccini's best-known lyrical arias.

Video will be available in 24 hours.