Puccini: Tosca

Puccini: Tosca

Puccini: Tosca
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Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-03-09
Music Label: Decca
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Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Tosca: Act I: Ah! Finalmente!
  2. Tosca: Act I: E sempre lava!
  3. Tosca: Act I: Dammi i colori...Recondita armonia
  4. Tosca: Act I: Voi! Cavaradossi!
  5. Tosca: Act I: Mario! Mario! Mario!
  6. Tosca: Act I: E' buona la mia Tosca
  7. Tosca: Act I: Sommo giubilo, Eccellenza!
  8. Tosca: Act I: Un tal baccano in chiesa!
  9. Tosca: Act I: Or tutto è chiaro
  10. Tosca: Act I: Tre sbirri, una carrozza
Music CD 2
  1. Tosca: Act II: Tosca è un buon falco!
  2. Tosca: Act II: Ha più forte sapore
  3. Tosca: Act II: O galantuomo, come andò la caccia?
  4. Tosca: Act II: Ov'è Angelotti?
  5. Tosca: Act II: Sciarrone, che dice il Cavalier?
  6. Tosca: Act II: Orsu, Tosca, parlate
  7. Tosca: Act II: Floria ... - Amore
  8. Tosca: Act II: Vittoria! Vittoria!
  9. Tosca: Act II: Quanto?
  10. Tosca: Act II: Vissi d'arte
  11. Tosca: Act II: Che è là?
  12. Tosca: Act II: Io tenni la promessa
  13. Tosca: Act III: Io de' sospiri
  14. Tosca: Act III: Mario Cavaradossi?
  15. Tosca: Act III: E lucevan la stelle
  16. Tosca: Act III: Ah! Franchigia a Floria Tosca
  17. Tosca: Act III: O dolci mani
  18. Tosca: Act III: Come e lunga l'attessa!
  19. Tosca: Act III: Presto, su! Mario!

Music reviews of Puccini: Tosca

Music Review: A Powerful But Underrated Album: You have to hear it !!
Rating: 5 Stars

About The Opera: Tosca one of those operas that all opera-lovers come across and remember fondly for its intense and emotional power. It's essentially the dramatic life of a dramatic diva. Her full name is Floria Tosca. The setting is Rome, Italy, the early years of the 19th century when Napoleon Bonaparte was conquering Europe and making enemies left and right. The artist Mario Cavaradossi paints for the Church while his true love Tosca seems to sing for the Church. The two are an unbreakable couple, despite Tosca's innate jealousy and dominant spirit. But there is a rival for the fair lady's hand. The evil chief of Police Scarpia lusts after Tosca and will do anything to have her. Jealous of the lovers, he plots to get rid of Mario and keep Tosca for himself. Mario, a secret revolutionary, is hiding a political enemy. Scarpia is on to him and threatens to kill him. He tortures Mario in front of Tosca and makes a proposition. To save her lover, she must consent to be his mistress and to give up her body to him. Tosca agrees out of love for Mario. The deal is that Mario is to be "mock executed". Tosca gets the upper hand when she stabs him to death, in one of the most powerful scenes in all opera. She is now convinced she is free to be with Mario since he is not really going to be killed in that mock execution. But it turns out that he is indeed executed and that Scarpia had planned that all along, not intending to keep his end of the deal. Having nowhere else to turn, Tosca leaps to her death from the Castle San Angelo which is still a landmark in the city of Rome.

ABOUT THIS ALBUM: There is no libretto, only a helpful but brief synopsis and background of the opera. The cast includes Birgit Nilsson as Tosca, Franco Corelli as Cavaradossi, Dietrich Fischer Dieskau as Scarpia, Piero Di Palma as Spoletta and Alfredo Mariotti as Sacristan. Lorin Maazel conducts the Orchestra of The Academy of Saint Cecilia in Rome. The perfection of this album for me is in the collaboration with Maazel's excellent conducting musicianship, the authentic Roman orchestra conducting what is really Roman/Italian music of the highest opera calibre. Birgit Nilsson is incredible as Tosca. She has the right voice- high, heavy, dramatic, and she acts the role with bravura and effective theatrical prowess. Note how she has the high C's or whatever high notes are called for, and not just that, she gets into the character with dramatic integrity. She literally SCREAMS, not just an operatic version of a scream, a real scream when she discovers in the last act that Cavaradossi has been really executed. The Torture Scene, which involves herself, Cavaradossi and Scarpia is among the most intense I've heard on record.

And Nilsson is up to paar with the likes of Maria Callas in the scene where she kills Scarpia. "Questo Il Becio Di Tosca!" "This is Tosca's kiss!" she cries with murder in her voice, even more so than Callas who can say the line with a little bit of fear and more vulnerability. This is probably due to the fact Callas was a specialist in bel canto while Birgit Nilsson was the reigning goddess of Wagner operas (Isolde, Brunhilde) and did justice to the heavier roles of Strauss' Salome, Elektra and Puccini's Turandot. Nilsson holds her own as Tosca, with a power that electrifies. This album was recored in 1967 at a busy time for Miss Nilson. Franco Corelli, too, was quite busy and working in many operas with her. They had worked together in Puccini's Turandot around the same time and there is also a recording of it. Franco Corelli is by far the most dramatically convincing Cavaradossi. He is less of the "romantic artist idealist" that Placido Domingo portrays, and is more of the hot-blooded Italian rebel/activist with a talent for art and a love for the beautiful Tosca. Corelli is doing a terrific jobe here and he is perhaps at his best. While other comments bash baritone Dieskau as Scarpia (they claim this role never suited him and he has no real energy into portraying opera's nastiest villain) I disagree. His portrayal is more earthy, more seductive, dark, sinister, Don Giovanni like in fashion. We must take in mind that Scarpia is not just an ugly, lusty monster. He is a powerful and attractive man. He's an alpha male but he happens to be a jerk. Dieskau brings out the seductive, sexiness to his voice more so than the EVIL. Scarpias that are truly evil on record have included Samuel Ramey, Titto Gobbi, Cornell McNeill and Ruggero Raimondi. This is one album you must own even if you have other Toscas. Other excellent Toscas you must add to your "Tosca" albums include Placido Doming/Leontine Price/Sherill Milnes ...Robert Alagna/Angela Gheorgiu/Ruggero Raimondi...Mirella Freni/Domingo/Samuel Ramey..Renata Tebaldi's performances as Tosca on record and the one album everyone always refers to as the best one of them all..Maria Callas, Di Stefano and Gobbi.
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