Description
Puccini: Tosca / Melodramma in three acts / Libretto by L. Illica and G. Giacosa / Orchestra and Chorus of Festival Puccini / Conductor: Valerio Galli / Children's Choir of Festival Puccini conducted by: Susanna Altemura / DVD
Format: NTSC
Run time: 124 Minutes
UPC: 8007144335694
- Aspect Ratio : 16:9
- MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
- Package Dimensions : 7.1 x 5.42 x 0.58 inches; 4.03 Ounces
- Director : Mario Corradi, Matteo Ricchetti
- Media Format : Subtitled, NTSC
- Release date : May 26, 2009
- Actors : Giorgio Surian, Massimo Laguardia, Stefano Secco, Antonia Cifrone, Riccardo Ferrari
- Subtitles: : German, English, French, Spanish, Italian
- Studio : Dynamic
- Number of discs : 1
Directed by Matteo Ricchetti, Mario Corradi. Starring Giorgio Surian, Antonia Cifrone, Massimo Laguardia. "It may not contain well-known singers but it is all a performance of Tosca should be. The sets are imaginatively inventive, demonstrating how to make much from little: Mario Corradi's production is theatrically powerful, the singing first class. Antonia Cifarone, who can act as well as sing, is a mesmerizing Tosca... No matter how many Toscas you may already own, this is one well worth adding to your collection"
Tosca is an opera that arouses powerful feelings, written by a musician who excelled in the characterisation of weak figures. It is one of the most popular of Puccini's works, for it successfully conveys the irresistible force of elemental emotions and passions: jealousy, desire, love of life, despair in the face of death. In this sense Tosca is much more like the "desperate passion" of Manon Lescaut than the crepuscular intimism of Bohème. In addition to some wonderful arias (Vissi d'arte, E lucevan le stelle) and duets, this opera is distinctive in that the character of Scarpia is the first great baritone figure of Puccini's theatre.
Giacomo Puccini Tosca
Melodramma in three acts
Libretto by L. Illica and G. Giacosa
Conductor: Valerio Galli
Director: Mario Corradi
Antonia Cifrone
Set and Costume designer: Igor Mitoraj
Light designer: Valerio Alfieri
Chorus master: Stefano Visconti
Orchestra and Chorus of Festival Puccini
Children's Choir of Festival Puccini
conducted by: Susanna Altemura
Assistant director: Andrea Di Giovanni
Assistant costume designer: Cristina Da Rold
Video director: Matteo Ricchetti
Recorded at the Festival Puccini. Puccini Lake Tower. August 2007
