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Tosca: In the Settings and at the Times of Tosca (Opera Film 1992)
Composer: Giacomo Antonio Puccini
Librettist: Giuseppe Giacosa, and Luigi Illica
Premiere: 14 January 1900, Rome (Teatro Costanzi)
Language: Italian
Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1887 French-language dramatic play, La Tosca, is a melodramatic piece set in Rome in June 1800, with the Kingdom of Naples's control of Rome threatened by Napoleon's invasion of Italy.
According to the libretto, the action of Tosca occurs in Rome in June 1800. Sardou, in his play, dates it more precisely; La Tosca takes place in the afternoon, evening, and early morning of 17 and 18 June 1800. This production is performed in the actual Roman settings and times of the day as described in the libretto. It was originally broadcast live in three parts - each part corresponding to each act, each act performed and broadcast from the actual building in which that act takes place in the plot, and at the exact time of day the action in the particular act occurs. None of it was filmed on sets especially built for the production. To accomplish this unheard-of feat, the singers were outfitted with tiny, nearly invisible radio transmitters plugged in their ears, which enabled them to hear the orchestra playing the accompaniments in the studio as the singers actually sang live in their respective locations.
Synopsis:
Rome, June 1800. Floria Tosca is a celebrated opera singer, better known as La Tosca. Her lover is Mario Cavaradossi, a young artist and Bonapartist sympathizer. When the latter helps Cesare Angelotti, former consul of the Roman Republic and now an escaped political prisoner, to escape from prison and hides him in his villa, he antagonizes Baron Scarpia, the ruthless chief of police, who mistrusts the painter, and believes him complicit in Angelotti's escape. Scarpia also desires Tosca and wants to possess her.
Tosca Libretto: https://www.opera-arias.com/puccini/tosca/libretto/
English Translation: https://www.opera-arias.com/puccini/tosca/libretto/english/
Cast:
Catherine Malfitano: Floria Tosca
Plácido Domingo: Mario Cavaradossi
Ruggero Raimondi: Il Barone Scarpia
Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Roma della RAI
Conductor: Zubin Mehta
Directed by Biran Large, Cinematography by Vittorio Storaro, Art Direction by Aldo Terlizzi, Produced by Andrea Andermann and Rada Rassimov.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105625/
Category | Arts & Literature |
Sensitivity | Normal - Content that is suitable for ages 16 and over |
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