Giacomo Puccini - Tosca (2007) [DVD9 NTSC]
Label: EUROARTS-TDK
Video: 16:9 NTSC
Audio: PCM Stereo, DD 5.1, DTS 5.1
Subtitles: Italian, English, German, French, Espanol
Conductor Riccardo Muti
Interpreters Salvatore Licitra Mario Cavaradossi
Maria Guleghina Floria Tosca
Leo Nucci Il Barone Scarpia
Giovanni Battista Parodi Cesare Angelotti
Alfredo Mariotti Il sagretsano
Ernesto Gavazzi Spoletta
Silvestro Sammaritano Sciarrone
Ernesto Panariello Un carceriere
Virginia Barchi Un pastore
Director Luca Ronconi
Recorded in Milano, Teatro alla Scala, March 2000
Floria Tosca – Maria Guleghina (soprano)
Mario Cavaradossi – Salvatore Licitra (tenor)
Baron Scarpia – Leo Nucci (baritone)
Angelotti – Giovanni Parodi (baritone)
Scaristan – Alfredo Mariotti (baritone)
Spoleta – Ernesto Gavazzi (tenor)
Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan/Riccardo Muti
Directed for the stage by Luca Ronconi
Directed for television by Pierre Cavasillas
Recorded live at La Scala, Milan, March 2000
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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, yet also includes some of Puccini's best-known lyrical arias, and has inspired memorable performances from many of opera's leading singers.
Puccini saw Sardou's play when it was touring Italy in 1889 and, after some vacillation, obtained the rights to turn the work into an opera in 1895. Turning the wordy French play into a succinct Italian opera took four years, during which the composer repeatedly argued with his librettists and publisher. Tosca premiered at a time of unrest in Rome, and its first performance was delayed for a day for fear of disturbances. Despite indifferent reviews from the critics, the opera was an immediate success with the public.
Musically, Tosca is structured as a through-composed work, with arias, recitative, choruses and other elements musically woven into a seamless whole. Puccini used Wagnerian leitmotifs (short musical statements) to identify characters, objects and ideas. While critics have frequently dismissed the opera as a facile melodrama with confusions of plot—musicologist Joseph Kerman famously called it a "shabby little shocker"—the power of its score and the inventiveness of its orchestration have been widely acknowledged. The dramatic force of Tosca and its characters continues to fascinate both performers and audiences, and the work remains one of the most frequently performed operas. Many recordings of the work have been issued, both of studio and live performances.
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