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Tosca / Giacomo Puccini.

Met Opera on Demand Available online

Met Opera on Demand
Format:
Video
Author/Creator:
Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924, composer, composer.
Contributor:
Verrett, Shirley, performer, performer.
Pavarotti, Luciano, performer, performer.
MacNeil, Cornell, 1922-2011, performer, performer.
Conlon, James, 1950- conductor, conductor.
Gobbi, Tito, director, director.
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.), performer, performer.
Language:
English
Italian
Subjects (All):
Operas.
Genre:
Video recordings.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 video file (2 hr., 4 min., 59 sec.)) : sound, colo
Other Title:
Met Opera on Demand.
Place of Publication:
[New York, New York] : [Metropolitan Opera], [1978]
Language Note:
Sung in Italian; English subtitles.
System Details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
digital
video file streaming video file
Summary:
A stellar cast brings Puccini's spellbinding opera to life, seizing every opportunity to thrill the audience. Luciano Pavarotti is Cavaradossi, the painter and political revolutionary in love with the beautiful and famous singer Tosca (the riveting Shirley Verrett). Rome's diabolical chief of police, Baron Scarpia (Cornell MacNeil), wants Tosca for himself--but he underestimates the fury of a woman in love. With torture, murder, and a suicide in its final moments, Tosca packs more dramatic punches than most other operas--and this classic telecast captures them all. James Conlon conducts in a production by the incomparable Tito Gobbi, one of the great Scarpias of the 20th century.
Contents:
Opening credits
Ah! Finalmente!
Dammi i colori!
Recondita armonia
Ma con quei cani
Eccellenza
Gente là dentro!
Mario! Mario! Mario!
Non la sospri la nostra casetta
Or lasciami al lavoro
Qua l'occhio al mondo
È buona la mia Tosca
Sommo giubilo, Eccellenza!
Un tal baccano in chiesa!
Or tutto è chiaro
Ed io venivo a lui tutta dogliosa
Tre sbirri
Una carrozza
Tosca è un buon falco!
Ha più forte sapore la conquista violenta
Ov'è Angelotti?
Ed or fra noi parliam da buoni amici
Orsù, Tosca, parlate
Floria!
Amore
Vittoria! Vittoria!
Quanto?
Il prezzo!
Vissi d'arte
Vedi, le man giunte io stendo a te!
Io tenni la promessa
Or gli perdono!
Io de'sospiri
Mario Cavaradossi? A voi
E lucevan le stelle
Ah! Franchigia a Floria Tosca
O dolci mani mansuete e pure
Senti
l'ora è vicina
E non giungono
L'ora!
Son pronto
Come è lunge l'attesa!
Bows and closing credits.
Participant:
Shirley Verrett ; Luciano Pavarotti ; Cornell MacNeil ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; James Conlon, conductor.
Credits:
Director, Tito Gobbi.
Notes:
Recorded live in 1978 at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, New York.
Description based on vendor-supplied metadata.
OCLC:
859396275
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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