Pro-Palestine protest at the Lyric Theater of Cagliari.

Tosca, directed by Beatrice Venezi, had just gone on stage when , at the end of the show, the audience and the loggias were filled with black, white, green and red flags and leaflets in defense of the Palestinian people.

“Free Palestine,” some in the audience shouted, unfurling and waving flags, while others left the theater.

Tosca, melodrama in three acts with a libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on the drama La Tosca by Victorien Sardou, and music by Giacomo Puccini, was the second appointment with the opera of the 2024 opera and ballet season and the first of the two tributes that the Lyric Theater paid to the memory of the composer from Lucca one hundred years after his death.

Directed by the Florentine Pier Francesco Maestrini, the musical direction was entrusted to Beatrice Venezi, who returned to Cagliari after directing La traviata last spring. She has the task of directing the Orchestra, the Choir of the Teatro Lirico of Cagliari and the children's choir of the “Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina” State Conservatory of Music of Cagliari. Venezi had just left when the protest exploded.

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