Opera (melodramma) in 3 acts
Libretto: Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica [Based: Victorien Sardou: La Tosca]
First performance: January 14, 1900, Teatro Costanzi, Roma
Recorded: 1998
Floria Tosca - Catherine Malfitano
Mario Cavaradossi - Richard Margison
Il barone Scarpia - Bryn Terfel
Cesare Angelotti - Mario Luperi
Riccardo Chailly conducts the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and an outstanding cast - including Bryn Terfel in his role debut as Scarpia - in Nikolaus Lehnhoff's sensational staging of Puccini's great operatic thriller.
'...an epoch making account…of Puccini's masterpiece'
'Terfel is the outstanding singing-actor of his generation...'
'Super sensitive conducting of Riccardo Chailly and - luxury of luxuries - his superlative Royal Concertgebouw orchestra'
The Sunday Times
'The most exciting Tosca of recent years'
Financial Times
Stars Catherine Malfitano as Tosca, Bryn Terfel as Scarpia and Richard Margison as Cavaradossi. Bryn Terfel plays the 'tough guy', in contrast to many of his other stage characters, which makes this Tosca immediately stand out as unusual from others.
A visually spectacular staging from the Netherlands Opera, which brings the world of 'James Bond' to Puccini's operatic thriller. Modernist, sinister sets and costumes create a fresh and at times horrifying interpretation, well away from traditional stagings, of this classic much-loved piece.
Outstanding orchestral performance with Riccardo Chailly conducting the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam.
Bonus Feature
* A behind-the-scenes look at the production with interviews with the director Nikolaus Lehnhoff and members of the cast. |
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