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Tosca / [music,] Giacomo Puccini ; production, Franco Zeffirelli ; Metropolitan Opera.

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Format:
Video
Contributor:
Sardou, Victorien, 1831-1908, librettist.
Illica, Luigi, 1857-1919, librettist.
Giacosa, Giuseppe, 1847-1906, librettist.
Behrens, Hildegard, performer.
Domingo, Plácido, 1941- performer.
MacNeil, Cornell, 1922-2011, performer.
Tajo, Italo, performer.
Sinopoli, Giuseppe, conductor.
Zeffirelli, Franco, director, producer, designer.
Paul, Samuel J., producer.
Browning, Kirk, 1921-2008, director.
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.). Chorus, performer.
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.). Orchestra, performer.
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.), producer.
Pioneer Entertainment (USA), producer, distributor.
Language:
English
Italian
Subjects (All):
Operas.
Genre:
Operas.
Television programs.
Video recordings.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
polychrome
Place of Publication:
Long Beach, Calif. : Pioneer Entertainment, [1998]
Language Note:
Sung in Italian; English subtitles.
System Details:
DVD.
digital
optical
stereo
video file
DVD video
Participant:
Hildegard Behrens (Tosca), Placido Domingo (Cavarodossi), Cornell MacNeil (Scarpia), Italo Tajo (Sacristan)
Metropolitan Opera Chorus : Metropolitan Opera Orchestra : Giuseppe Sinopoli, conductor.
Credits:
Set design, Franco Zeffirelli; costume design, Peter J. Hall; lighting designer, Gil Wechsler; video, William Steinberg; camera, Bill Akerlund, Juan Barrera, John Feher...[et al.]; producer, Samuel J. Paul; director, Kirk Browning.
Notes:
DVD issue of the opera originally recorded for television.
Libretto by Victorien Sardou, Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.
Presented by the Metropolitan Opera and Pioneer Entertainment (USA) L.P. "The original telecast was made possible by a major grant from Texaco..." -- Container.
Taped March 20 and 27, 1985 at the Metropolitan Opera, New York. The spoken credits mention only March 27.
Originally broadcast as part of the Live from the Met television program.
Dolby digital, stereo.
Includes interactive chapter index.
Accompanying booklet has chapters, scene by scene synopsis, and program notes by David Hamilton.
"Emmy Award for Outstanding Classical Program 1984-1985"--Container.
Contains:
Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924. Tosca.
OCLC:
249277999
Publisher Number:
PC-94-025-D Pioneer Classics

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