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When Herbert von Karajan was making his own recording of Tosca in 1962, he would often ask his producer John Culshaw to play selections from the de Sabata/Callas recording to him. Culshaw reports that "One exceptionally tricky passage for the conductor is the entry of Tosca in act 3, where Puccini's tempo directions can best be described as ...
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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 It
Tito Gobbi as Scarpia in Puccini's Tosca, 1954 According to Gobbi, he sang the part of Scarpia in Puccini's Tosca "nearly a thousand times". [ 5 ] One significant production was the "event of worldwide interest" (as Gobbi himself describes it), [ 6 ] Franco Zeffirelli 's production of Tosca at the Royal Opera House , Covent Garden in London in ...
Scarpia has Cavaradossi tortured in the presence of Tosca, who divulges Angelotti's hiding place. Tosca agrees to submit to Scarpia's advances, if he spares Cavaradossi's life in a mock execution and provides her with a safe-conduct to allow her and her lover to escape Rome. After Scarpia finishes writing, she stabs and kills him.
Tosca is a 1941 Italian historical drama film directed by Carl Koch and starring Imperio Argentina, Michel Simon and Rossano Brazzi. It is an adaptation of Victorien Sardou 's play La Tosca and its subsequent opera version, Tosca , composed by Giacomo Puccini to a libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa .
Cécile Sorel: Floria Tosca, a famous opera singer; René Alexandre: Mario Cavaradossi, a painter and supporter Bonapartist her young lover; Charles le Bargy: the Baron Scarpia, the ruthless police chief of Rome; Charles Mosnier: Cesare Angelotti, the leader of the opposition arrested by Scarpia
Deborah Burton is an American music theorist, pianist, and academic.She is particularly known for her publications on Giacomo Puccini and his works, including Recondite Harmony (Pendragon, 2012) and the 2004 book Tosca's Prism: Three Moments of Western Cultural History.