Bibliograph

Tosca, music, Giacomo Puccini ; libretto, Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, after the play La Tosca by Victorien Sardou ; stage director, Jonathan Kent. ; conductor, Antonio Pappano

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Label

Tosca, music, Giacomo Puccini ; libretto, Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, after the play La Tosca by Victorien Sardou ; stage director, Jonathan Kent. ; conductor, Antonio Pappano

Language

ita

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

Tosca

Oclc number

827937500

resource.otherEventInformation

Recorded live at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, July 14 & 17, 2011

Responsibility statement

music, Giacomo Puccini ; libretto, Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, after the play La Tosca by Victorien Sardou ; stage director, Jonathan Kent. ; conductor, Antonio Pappano

Runtime

128

Summary

Jonathan Kent's atmospheric and evocative production of Tosca-which has established itself as a Royal Opera House classic-features three of today's finest singers. Angela Gheorghiu's sensitively portrayed Tosca, a character with which she closely identifies, is paired with Jonas Kaufmann's intense and compelling Cavaradossi, while Bryn Terfel is thrillingly malevolent as Scarpia. Antonio Pappano's masterfully paced conducting captures all the drama and beauty of Puccini's exhilarating opera

Technique

live action

Classification