Puccini - Tosca | Cedolins, Alvarez, Raimondi (Arena di Verona 2006 - MULTI SUB)

Live broadcast of the lavish production by Hugo De Ana at the Arena di Verona in 2006. Audio in Italian with subtitles in: Italian, English, French, German and Spanish (Click on CC for the subtitles).

Composer: Giacomo Antonio Puccini
Librettist: Giuseppe Giacosa, and Luigi Illica
Premiere: 14 January 1900, Rome (Teatro Costanzi)
Language: Italian
Translation(s): Italian, English,French, German, Spanish.
Synopsis: https://www.opera-arias.com/puccini/tosca/synopsis/

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.

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. It contains depictions of torture, murder and suicide, yet also includes some of Puccini's best-known lyrical arias, and has inspired memorable performances from many of opera's leading singers.

Cast & Characters:
Floria Tosca - Fiorenza Cedolins
Mario Cavaradossi - Marcelo Alvarez
Scarpia - Ruggero Raimondi
Angelotti - Marco Spotti
The Sacristan - Fabio Previati
Spoletta - Enrico Facini
Sciarrone - Giuliano Pelizone
The Jailer - Angelo Nardinocci
The Shepherd - Ottavia Dorucci

Choir and Orchestra of Arena di Verona
Conductor - Daniel Oren
Director - Hugo De Ana