#opera tosca

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A parallel theory between Tosca and PB

1. Grace/Floria Tosca:

Made a deal with her boss to save her lover, but be betrayed. Decided to stab/shoot him.

2. Inspector Campbell/Baron Scarpia:

Be in one-sided love with Grace/Tosca within desire and jealousy, finally be killed/hurt by her.

3. Thomas/Cavaradossi:

A protagonist's lover. Be at odds in Campbell/Scarpia.

Puccini’s Tosca | Peaky Blinders In this scene Floria Tosca (an opera singer) begs Baron Scarpia (the corrupt Chief of Police) to spare her lover’s life. He agrees on the condition that she gives herself to him. Once Scarpia has granted safe‑conduct for Tosca and her lover to escape from Rome, Tosca stabs him to death, just as he demands ‘payment’ from her.

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MARIA CALLAS as Floria Tosca in Puccini's Tosca, 1953

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Souvenir postcards depicting scenes from Tosca by Leopoldo Metlicovitz (originally set of 12) (1899-1900)

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More historical background for E Lucevan Le Stelle.

I wouldn't be surprised if Isolde is based on several actresses/opera singers from the time, specifically the french actress Sarah Bernhardt and the rumanian singer Hariclea Darcleé. The first one portraited La Tosca in 1887, which was written by the french dramaturge Victorien Sardou. The play was later adapted into an opera in 1900, where Darcleé became the first singer to take the role of La Tosca.

An interesting fact is how both performers and the character of La Tosca have been portrait by famous Art Noveau artists like Gustav Klimt, Adolfo Hohenstein or Alfons Mucha. Chapter 6 aesthetic is heavily based on the Vienna Secession style (which was VERY close to Art Noveau), particularly Klimt's work (he was the first president of the Secession after all).

And just to add one more thing: Dies Irae blasting near the end, in the 3rd Phase of the last boss battle, is hilarious because Giuseppe Verdi itself went to see the play on 1887, loved it, but refused to work in an opera adaptation because (*COF* like Marcus *COF*) "he didn't like the ending".

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Maria Callas and Tito Gobbi, Tosca. Paris, 1964.

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Theater poster for the opera Tosca by Puccini • 1899 • Adolfo Hohenstein (German/Jewish, 1854-1928), illustrator

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callas drawing from... sometime last month.

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PLEASE THIS IS SO OUT OF POCKET

(also happy leap day!)

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Tosca

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Maria Callas in her dressing room at the Metropolitan Opera House, November 1956

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* as far as I know obviously

[automaticdreamlandkid]

Jonas Kaufmann in Tosca

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i was scrolling through my old drawings and found some funny opera stuff so here it is… it’s like 2022 so yeah don’t be surprised fusidnusdudhdu

don giovanni, tosca, la fille du regiment, don giovanni again, turandot, don carlos and werther

also this because for some reason i didn’t post this

[fishareglorious]

Marcus: Was he demonstrating the madness of passion? But the lines are clean. Perhaps the purity of eternity? No, the circles are too twisted for that... or was he just representing a primitive state of being? Hofmann: I don't understand any of that. So this must be art.

greta i love you you funny ass motherfucker never change

[princesssarisa]

Opera on YouTube, Part 2

Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 1973 (Knut Skram, Ileana Cotrubas, Kiri Te Kanawa, Benjamin Luxon; conducted by John Pritchard; English subtitles)

Jean-Pierre Ponnelle studio film, 1976 (Hermann Prey, Mirella Freni, Kiri Te Kanawa, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau; conducted by Karl Böhm; English subtitles) – Acts I and II, Acts III and IV

Tokyo National Theatre, 1980 (Hermann Prey, Lucia Popp, Gundula Janowitz, Bernd Weikl; conducted by Karl Böhm; Japanese subtitles)

Théâtre du Châtelet, 1993 (Bryn Terfel, Alison Hagley, Hillevi Martinpelto, Rodney Gilfry; conducted by John Eliot Gardiner; Italian subtitles)

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 1994 (Gerald Finley, Alison Hagley, Renée Fleming, Andreas Schmidt; conducted by Bernard Haitink; English subtitles)

Zürich Opera House, 1996 (Carlos Chaussón, Isabel Rey, Eva Mei, Rodney Gilfry; conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt; English subtitles)

Berlin State Opera, 2005 (Lauri Vasar, Anna Prohaska, Dorothea Röschmann, Ildebrando d'Arcangelo; conducted by Gustavo Dudamel; French subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 2006 (Ildebrando d'Arcangelo, Anna Netrebko, Dorothea Röschmann, Bo Skovhus; conducted by Nikolas Harnoncourt; English subtitles) – Acts I and II, Acts III and IV

Teatro all Scala, 2006 (Ildebrando d'Arcangelo, Diana Damrau, Marcella Orasatti Talamanca, Pietro Spagnoli; conducted by Gérard Korsten; English and Italian subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 2015 (Adam Plachetka, Martina Janková, Anett Fritsch, Luca Pisaroni; conducted by Dan Ettinger; no subtitles)

Tosca

Carmine Gallone studio film, 1956 (Franca Duval dubbed by Maria Caniglia, Franco Corelli, Afro Poli dubbed by Giangiacomo Guelfi; conducted by Oliviero de Fabritiis; no subtitles)

Gianfranco de Bosio film, 1976 (Raina Kabaivanska, Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes; conducted by Bruno Bartoletti; English subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 1978 (Shirley Verrett, Luciano Pavarotti, Cornell MacNeil; conducted by James Conlon; no subtitles)

Arena di Verona, 1984 (Eva Marton, Jaume Aragall, Ingvar Wixell; conducted by Daniel Oren; no subtitles)

Teatro Real de Madrid, 2004 (Daniela Dessí, Fabio Armiliato, Ruggero Raimondi; conducted by Maurizio Benini; English subtitles)

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 2011 (Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann, Bryn Terfel; conducted by Antonio Pappano; English subtitles)

Finnish National Opera, 2018 (Ausrinė Stundytė, Andrea Carè, Tuomas Pursio; conducted by Patrick Fournillier; English subtitles)

Teatro alla Scala 2019 (Anna Netrebko, Francesco Meli, Luca Salsi; conducted by Riccardo Chailly; Hungarian subtitles)

Vienna State Opera, 2019 (Sondra Radvanovsky, Piotr Beczala, Thomas Hampson; conducted by Marco Armiliato; English subtitles)

Ópera de las Palmas, 2024 (Erika Grimaldi, Piotr Beczala, George Gagnidze; conducted by Ramón Tebar; no subtitles)

Don Giovanni

Salzburg Festival, 1954 (Cesare Siepi, Otto Edelmann, Elisabeth Grümmer, Lisa della Casa; conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler; English subtitles)

Giacomo Vaccari studio film, 1960 (Mario Petri, Sesto Bruscantini, Teresa Stich-Randall, Leyla Gencer; conducted by Francesco Molinari-Pradelli; no subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 1987 (Samuel Ramey, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Julia Varady; conducted by Herbert von Karajan; no subtitles)

Teatro alla Scala, 1987 (Thomas Allen, Claudio Desderi, Edita Gruberova, Ann Murray; conducted by Riccardo Muti; English subtitles)

Peter Sellars studio film, 1990 (Eugene Perry, Herbert Perry, Dominique Labelle, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson; conducted by Craig Smith; English subtitles)

Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, 1997 (Simon Keenlyside, Bryn Terfel, Carmela Remigio, Anna Caterina Antonacci; conducted by Claudio Abbado; no subtitles) – Act I, Act II

Zürich Opera, 2000 (Rodney Gilfry, László Polgár, Isabel Rey, Cecilia Bartoli; conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt; English subtitles)

Festival Aix-en-Provence, 2002 (Peter Mattei, Gilles Cachemaille, Alexandra Deshorties, Mirielle Delunsch; conducted by Daniel Harding; no subtitles)

Teatro Real de Madrid, 2006 (Carlos Álvarez, Lorenzo Regazzo, Maria Bayo, Sonia Ganassi; conducted by Victor Pablo Pérez; English subtitles)

Festival Aix-en-Provence, 2017 (Philippe Sly, Nahuel de Pierro, Eleonora Burratto, Isabel Leonard; conducted by Jérémie Rohrer; English subtitles)

Madama Butterfly

Mario Lanfranchi studio film, 1956 (Anna Moffo, Renato Cioni; conducted by Oliviero de Fabritiis; no subtitles)

Jean-Pierre Ponnelle studio film, 1974 (Mirella Freni, Plácido Domingo; conducted by Herbert von Karajan; English subtitles)

New York City Opera, 1982 (Judith Haddon, Jerry Hadley; conducted by Christopher Keene; English subtitles)

Frédéric Mitterand film, 1995 (Ying Huang, Richard Troxell; conducted by James Conlon; English subtitles)

Arena di Verona, 2004 (Fiorenza Cedolins, Marcello Giordani; conducted by Daniel Oren; Spanish subtitles)

Sferisterio Opera Festival, 2009 (Raffaela Angeletti, Massimiliano Pisapia; conducted by Daniele Callegari; no subtitles)

Vienna State Opera, 2017 (Maria José Siri, Murat Karahan; conducted by Jonathan Darlington; no subtitles)

Wichita Grand Opera, 2017 (Yunnie Park, Kirk Dougherty; conducted by Martin Mazik; English subtitles)

Teatro San Carlo, 2019 (Evgenia Muraveva, Saimir Pirgu; conducted by Gabriele Ferro; no subtitles)

Rennes Opera House, 2022 (Karah Son, Angelo Villari; conducted by Rudolf Piehlmayer; French subtitles)

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Reminder that while The Met is streaming Puccini free all month, this includes not just the video, but the audio productions, which means you can listen to this utterly remarkable Tosca for the low, low price of nothing.