Puccini - Tosca

Our Price: £22.48 (£19.55 ex VAT)

Format: DVD - NTSC

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Opera

Artist(s): Fiorenza Cedolins, Marcelo Alvarez, Ruggero Raimondi, Orchestra e Coro dell’ Arena di Verona

Conductor(s): Daniel Oren

Release Date: 27th August 2007

TDK bring you a superlative staging of Puccini’s Tosca by Italian opera producer Hugo de Ana. The popular tragedy is sung by a dream team cast of excellent singer-actors and conducted by long-established Arena di Verona conductor Daniel Oren. 

 

Producer and designer Hugo de Ana’s opening imagery evokes a Rome of outsize sculpture and sets the opera against a visual expression of the overbearing collusion of political power and the Church. He creates a shifting sequence of telling images and colour schemes to create atmosphere and to complement the sensational singing.

 

The first-rate singers add to the atmosphere of this very special event: joining stellar soprano Fiorenza Cedolins is Argentinean tenor Marcelo Álvarez who made his début in the role (at Covent Garden in June 2006) before this Verona production, and was reviewed in Opera as “[living] up to his reputation for excellence.” The trio of doomed principals is completed by Ruggero Raimondi’s Scarpia, praised by Opera as having brought “a powerful stage presence and unchanged acting skills” to the role.

 

Arena di Verona, 2006.

 

Stage Director: Hugo de Ana

 

Picture Format: 16:9, 1 DVD 9
Sound Format:  LPCM stereo, DD 5.1, DTS 5.1
Running Time:  119 mins
Region Code:  NTSC All
Booklet Languages: GB, F, D
Subtitle Languages: GB, F, D, I, E
Territory:  Worldwide