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Puccini: Tosca / Behrens, Domingo, Sinopoli, MET (2006)

Language: Italian | Subtitles: Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish

Genre: Opera

This is the best of Placido Domingo's several video performances as the painter Cavaradossi, lover of the prima donna Floria Tosca and enthusiast of revolutionary ideals in the repressive atmosphere of Napoleonic-era Rome. His colleagues, Cornell MacNeil and Hildegard Behrens, are both seasoned and highly capable performers who make the deadly confrontation between Tosca and the corrupt police chief Scarpia intense and believable. Guiseppe Sinopoli conducts with style and dramatic power. But in many ways the primary reason for wanting Tosca in a video rather than an audio recording is the staging by Franco Zeffirelli--effective for the few thousand who saw it in the opera house but even more effective on camera for the much larger television and home video audience. He shifts easily from the small-scale duets in Act I to the grandiose spectacle of the "Te Deum" just before the curtain. His attention to small details helps build the tension in Act II to its violent climax, and in Act III he gives poignancy to the abrupt shift from hope to despair. The essence of Tosca is melodrama, and the singers, conductor, director, and audience all revel in it.

• Puccini´s masterpiece in three acts is the tragic story of an escaped political prisoner, a prima donna, and the brutal chief of the secret police.

• Conducted by Giuseppe Sinopoli live from the MET in March 1985 an allstar cast led by Hildegard Behrens, give unforgettable opera moments.

• DVD bonus: “Tosca, Zeffirelli, and Rome” & “Artists´ Discussion.”

Performers: Russell Christopher (Tenor); Cornell MacNeil (Baritone); Placido Domingo (Baritone); Hildegard Behrens (Soprano); James Courtney (Bass); Anthony Laciura (Tenor); Italo Tajo (Bass)

Conductor: Giuseppe Sinopoli

Stage Production and Set Design: Franco Zeffirelli

Ensemble: Metropolitan Opera Chorus

Period Time: Romantic

Form: Opera/Operetta

Written: 1900

Works on This Recording:

1. Tosca by Giacomo Puccini

Performer: Italo Tajo (Bass), Anthony Laciura (Tenor), James Courtney (Bass),

Hildegard Behrens (Soprano), Placido Domingo (Tenor), Cornell MacNeil (Baritone),

Russell Christopher (Tenor)

Conductor: Giuseppe Sinopoli

Orchestra/Ensemble: Metropolitan Opera Chorus, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

Period: Romantic

Written: 1900; Italy

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