Puccini – Tosca 2x Cassette Box Set 4X2X-3655 NM

Description: This listing is for Puccini, Orchestre De La Société Des Concerts Du Conservatoire Conducted By Georges Prêtre – Tosca 2xCassette Box Set 4X2X-3655. Both cassettes and original booklet are included. TAPE 2 IS SEALED! Label: Capitol Records/EMI-Angel Records – 4X2X-3655 Format: 2 x Cassette, Box Set Country: USA Released: 1982 Genre:Classical Style:Opera Tracklist: Act 1 A1Recondita Armonia3:48 A2Ora Stammi A Sentir: Stasera Canto12:59 A3Va, Tosca! Nel Tuo Cuor S'Annida Scarpia!3:50 Act 2 A4Floria!... Amore!...8:33 B1Vissi D'Arte...13:12 Act 3 B2E Lucevan Le Stelle17:44 Cast: Baritone Vocals (Scarpia) – Tito Gobbi Bass Vocals (Sacristan) – Giorgio Tadeo Bass Vocals (Sciarrone) – Ugo Trama Chorus – Choeurs Du Théâtre De L'Opéra De Paris Chorus Master – Jean Laforge Conductor – Georges Prêtre Libretto By – Giuseppe Giacosa, Luigi Illica Orchestra – Orchestre De La Société Des Concerts Du Conservatoire Soprano Vocals (Floria Tosca) – Maria Callas Tenor Vocals (Mario Cavaradossi) – Carlo Bergonzi Tenor Vocals (Spoletta) – Renato Ercolani 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. It contains depictions of torture, murder, and suicide, as well as some of Puccini's best-known lyrical arias. Puccini saw Sardou's play when it was touring Italy in 1889 and, after some vacillation, obtained the rights to turn the work into an opera in 1895. Turning the wordy French play into a succinct Italian opera took four years, during which the composer repeatedly argued with his librettists and publisher. Tosca premiered at a time of unrest in Rome, and its first performance was delayed for a day for fear of disturbances. Despite indifferent reviews from the critics, the opera was an immediate success with the public. Musically, Tosca is structured as a through-composed work, with arias, recitative, choruses and other elements musically woven into a seamless whole. Puccini used Wagnerian leitmotifs to identify characters, objects and ideas. While critics have often dismissed the opera as a facile melodrama with confusions of plot—musicologist Joseph Kerman famously called it a "shabby little shocker"—the power of its score and the inventiveness of its orchestration have been widely acknowledged. The dramatic force of Tosca and its characters continues to fascinate both performers and audiences, and the work remains one of the most frequently performed operas. Many recordings of the work have been issued, both of studio and live performances.

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