Tosca / Giacomo Puccini.

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.