A superlative staging of Puccini’s Tosca by Italian opera producer Hugo de Ana, brought to you from the world-famous Arena di Verona and complete with all the splendour that a Puccini opera demands! 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.

The recording captures one of those special Verona summer evenings, when the audience fills the historic circle in expectation of the enjoyment of an open-air opera performance. Verona’s amphitheatre, known as the ‘arena’, provides an atmospheric setting for the summer festival. To view an opera in the amphitheatre, the second largest of its kind after the Colosseum in Rome, can truly be regarded as an impressive experience. The DVD, however, provides a closer look at the stage and the singers and brings this dramatic opera directly to the home viewer.

Cast:
- Floria Tosca: Fiorenza Cedolins
- Mario Cavaradossi: Marcelo Alvarez
- Il Barone Scarpia: Ruggero Raimondi

Live recording from the Arena di Verona, 2006.

Directed & Set Design by: Hugo De Ana

Sound Format: LPCM Stereo, DD 5.1, DTS 5.1
Picture Format: 16:9
DVD Format: DVD 9, NTSC
Subtitle Languages: GB, DE, FR, ES, IT
Running Time: 119 mins
FSK: 0
Region Code: 0
Worldwide available, excluding Japan