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Title Tosca / Giacomo Puccini.

Publication Info. Hamburg : Deutsche Grammophon, [2006]
Distributed by Universal Music Distribution
©2006

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult DVD, Nonfiction  DVD 782.1 PUC    DUE 04-16-24
 South Windsor Public Library - Audio-Visual Materials  DVD TOSCA    Check Shelf
Description 1 DVD (159 min.)
Playing Time 023900
Description digital optical stereo surround DTS 5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1 rda
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.
Operas. (OCoLC)fst01046191
Added Author contains (work) Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924. Tosca.
based on (work) Sardou, Victorien, 1831-1908. Tosca.
Illica, Luigi, 1857-1919, librettist.
Giacosa, Giuseppe, 1847-1906, librettist.
Behrens, Hildegard, singer.
Domingo, Plácido, 1941- singer.
MacNeil, Cornell, 1922-2011, singer.
Courtney, James, 1946- singer.
Tajo, Italo, singer.
Laciura, Anthony, singer.
Christopher, Russell, singer.
Vernon, Richard, 1953-2006, singer.
Fogarty, Melissa, singer.
Sinopoli, Giuseppe, conductor.
Browning, Kirk, 1921-2008, director.
Levine, James, 1943-2021 musical director.
Stivender, David, chorus master.
Bronson, Michael, executive producer.
Paul, Samuel J. producer.
Zeffirelli, Franco, set designer.
Hall, Peter J., 1926-2010, costume designer.
Wechsler, Gil, lighting designer.
Saks, Jay David, audio director.
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.), performer.
Standard No. 044007341001
Music No. B0007101-09 Deutsche Grammaphon
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