Puccini - Tosca (remastered)
by Franco Zeffirelli
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Actor: Cornell MacNeil, Hildegard Behrens, Italo Tajo, James Courtney, Placido DomingoDirector: Franco Zeffirelli
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: Italian (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Chinese (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); German (Subtitled); Italian (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Classical, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 127 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-09-12
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Deutsche Grammophon
Movie Reviews of Puccini - Tosca (remastered)
Movie Review: Excellent
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent audio-video! Always a pleasure to see a Met/Zefarelli production. While the "movie" versions are very well done, I prefer to see the staged versions and the Met and Franco are tops! This a remarkably crisp image for a older production. The remastering is superb and the cast is world-class, of course.
Summary of Puccini - Tosca (remastered)
This is the best of Placido Domingo's several video performances as the painter Cavaradossi, lover of the prima donna Floria Tosca and enthusiast of revolutionary ideals in the repressive atmosphere of Napoleonic-era Rome. His colleagues, Cornell MacNeil and Hildegard Behrens, are both seasoned and highly capable performers who make the deadly confrontation between Tosca and the corrupt police chief Scarpia intense and believable. Guiseppe Sinopoli conducts with style and dramatic power. But in many ways the primary reason for wanting Tosca in a video rather than an audio recording is the staging by Franco Zeffirelli--effective for the few thousand who saw it in the opera house but even more effective on camera for the much larger television and home video audience. He shifts easily from the small-scale duets in Act?I to the grandiose spectacle of the "Te Deum" just before the curtain. His attention to small details helps build the tension in Act?II to its violent climax, and in Act?III he gives poignancy to the abrupt shift from hope to despair. The essence of Tosca is melodrama, and the singers, conductor, director, and audience all revel in it. --Joe McLellanArt House & International DVD Video
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