Puccini's Tosca invariably enters all lists of the most performed operas. The more difficult it was to create your own performance, given the number of interpretations by the most renowned directors. Our version tells the story of Floria Tosca in a quasi-historical setting. The scenery of the play was inspired by an ancient cathedral that I was able to visit during a trip to Germany. It was entangled with scaffolding and in the interior they looked like a shrinking cage.

I thought this was a very appropriate metaphor for the set design of the opera Tosca, in which circumstances and feelings brought all the main characters, both positive and negative, to their deaths. The scenery in the first act looks like scaffolding, but as the action progresses it turns into a shrinking cage that slams shut like a trap in the finale.