Description |
1 DVD (159 min.) |
Playing Time |
023900 |
Description |
digital optical stereo surround DTS 5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1 rda |
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video file DVD video all regions rda |
Note |
Opera in 3 acts; libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa after Victorien Sardou's play. |
Language |
Sung in Italian; subtitles in Chinese, English, French, German, Italian & Spanish. |
Note |
Title from disc label. |
System Details |
DVD; NTSC; all regions; aspect ratio 4:3, full screen; stereo., DTS 5.1; Dolby Digital 5.1. |
Performer |
Hildegard Behrens (Floria Tosca) ; Plácido Domingo (Mario Cavardossi) ; Cornell MacNeil (Il barone Scarpia) ; James Courtney (Cesare Angelotti) ; Italo Tajo (Il sagrestano) ; Anthony Laciura (Spoletta) ; Russell Christopher (Sciarrone) ; Richard Vernon (Un carceriere) ; Melissa Fogarty (Un pastore) ; Metropolitan Opera Chorus ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra ; Giuseppe Sinopoli, conductor. |
Credits |
Director, Kirk Browning ; music director, James Levine ; chorus master, David Stivender ; executive producer, Michael Bronson ; producer, Samuel J. Paul ; production and set design, Franco Zeffirelli ; costume design, Peter J. Hall ; lighting design, Gil Wechsler ; audio director, Jay David Saks. |
Event |
Videorecording of performances taped March 20 and 27, 1985 at the Metropolitan Opera, New York. |
Note |
Program notes by Richard Evidon, synopsis, and credits (12 pages : portraits) inserted in container. |
Summary |
The story begins with Napoleon Bonaparte, political enemy of Scarpia advancing upon Rome. Cavaradossi a painter and Angelotti an escaped prisoner are political allies and see Napoleon as a hero. Angelotti has taken refuge in a chapel of a church in Rome in which Cavaradossi is painting a portrait of the Madonna. Cavaradossi has as his lover a famous singer Floria Tosca who attempts to enter the church and finds the door locked. She becomes jealous and demands to know why the door is locked. Angelotti and Cavaradossi engineer an escape plan for Angelotti. Various twists and turns develop involving these major players. |
Subject |
Operas.
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Operas. (OCoLC)fst01046191
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Added Author |
contains (work) Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.
Tosca.
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based on (work) Sardou, Victorien, 1831-1908.
Tosca.
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Illica, Luigi, 1857-1919, librettist.
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Giacosa, Giuseppe, 1847-1906, librettist.
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Behrens, Hildegard, singer.
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Domingo, Plácido, 1941- singer.
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MacNeil, Cornell, 1922-2011, singer.
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Courtney, James, 1946- singer.
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Tajo, Italo, singer.
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Laciura, Anthony, singer.
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Christopher, Russell, singer.
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Vernon, Richard, 1953-2006, singer.
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Fogarty, Melissa, singer.
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Sinopoli, Giuseppe, conductor.
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Browning, Kirk, 1921-2008, director.
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Levine, James, 1943-2021 musical director.
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Stivender, David, chorus master.
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Bronson, Michael, executive producer.
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Paul, Samuel J. producer.
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Zeffirelli, Franco, set designer.
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Hall, Peter J., 1926-2010, costume designer.
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Wechsler, Gil, lighting designer.
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Saks, Jay David, audio director.
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Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.), performer.
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Standard No. |
044007341001 |
Music No. |
B0007101-09 Deutsche Grammaphon |
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