Duration
117 Min
Puccini's Tosca - with Raina Kabaivanska & Plácido Domingo
Opera
Filmed in Rome
Production Date: 01/01/1977
117 Min
Puccini's gripping operatic thriller about love and politics takes place almost in real time in June 1800: the action, driven by the composer's psychologically astute and powerfully incendiary music, takes place in just two days at precisely designated real locations in the eternal city of Rome. This 1976 film brings the musical drama back to two of those original locations. The first act was filmed in the beautiful baroque church of Sant'Andrea della Valle, and the last in the Castel Sant'Angelo, built in antiquity, from which the title heroine plunges to her deatch at the end. In the leading roles Raina Kabaivanska, Plácido Domingo and Sherrill Milnes boast not just world class voices, but movie-star charisma.
- Soloists:
- Plácido Domingo (Tenor), Bruno Grella (Baritone), Alfredo Mariotti (Bass), Sherrill Milnes (Baritone), Giancarlo Luccardi (Bass), Domenico Medici (Bass-Baritone), Plácido Domingo Jr. (Tenor), Raina Kabaivanska (Soprano)
- Ensemble:
- New Philharmonia Orchestra
- Conductor:
- Bruno Bartoletti
