Bibliograph

Tosca, melodrama in three acts, music, Giacomo Puccini ; libretto, Giuseppe Giacoso and Luigi Illica after the play La Tosca by Victorien Sardou ; directed for the stage by Jonathan Kent ; revival director, Duncan Macfarland ; directed for the screen by Jonathan Haswell ; a Royal Opera House production

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Label

Tosca, melodrama in three acts, music, Giacomo Puccini ; libretto, Giuseppe Giacoso and Luigi Illica after the play La Tosca by Victorien Sardou ; directed for the stage by Jonathan Kent ; revival director, Duncan Macfarland ; directed for the screen by Jonathan Haswell ; a Royal Opera House production

Language

ita

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

Tosca

Medium

videorecording

Oclc number

817936060

resource.otherEventInformation

Recorded live at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, on 14 & 17 July 2011

Responsibility statement

music, Giacomo Puccini ; libretto, Giuseppe Giacoso and Luigi Illica after the play La Tosca by Victorien Sardou ; directed for the stage by Jonathan Kent ; revival director, Duncan Macfarland ; directed for the screen by Jonathan Haswell ; a Royal Opera House production

Runtime

128

Sub title

melodrama in three acts

Summary

Jonathan Kent's atmospheric and evocative production of Tosca-which has established itself as a Royal Opera House classic-features three of today's finest singers. Angela Gheorghiu's sensitively portrayed Tosca, a character with which she closely identifies, is paired with Jonas Kaufmann's intense and compelling Cavaradossi, while Bryn Terfel is thrillingly malevolent as Scarpia. Antonio Pappano's masterfully paced conducting captures all the drama and beauty of Puccini's exhilarating opera

Target audience

general

Technique

live action

Classification