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The text for the original version of the aria which Puccini later shortened for subsequent editions of the libretto can be found in Susan VanDiver Nicassio, Tosca's Rome: The Play and the Opera in Historical Perspective, University of Chicago Press, 2002, p. 307. (ISBN 0-226-57971-9)
The Puccini Experience: RCA: B0000024FD CD 1996: Arias: Decca: 000289 452 4172 2 CD 1996: Roberto Alagna & Angela Gheorghiu – Duets and Arias: EMI: 0724355611727 CD 1998: My World: Decca: 458 3602 CD 1998: Angela Gheorghiu & Roberto Alagna – Verdi per due: EMI: 0724355665621 CD 2000: Verdi Heroines: Decca: 000289 466 9522 7 CD 2001: Casta ...
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 It
Opera Arias (2003). Gianandrea Noseda, Wiener Philharmoniker (DG) Sempre Libera (2004). Claudio Abbado, Mahler Chamber Orchestra (DG) Violetta: Arias and Duets from Verdi's La Traviata (2006). Rolando Villazón, Thomas Hampson (CD/DVD, DG) Russian Album (2006). Valery Gergiev, Orchestra of Mariinsky Theatre (DG) Duets, with Rolando Villazón ...
It includes several previously unreleased versions of a number of operatic arias associated with Lanza, together with the duet "Dio ti giocondi" from Otello with soprano Licia Albanese, the Improvviso ("Un di all'azzurro spazio") from Andrea Chénier, and "M'appari" from Martha. The CD also includes four recordings from The Mario Lanza Radio Show.
Plácido Domingo has made hundreds of opera performances, music albums, and concert recordings throughout his career as an operatic tenor.From his first operatic leading role as Alfredo in La traviata in 1961, his major debuts continued in swift succession: Tosca at the Hamburg State Opera and Don Carlos at the Vienna State Opera in 1967; Adriana Lecouvreur at the Metropolitan Opera, Turandot ...
O soave fanciulla" ("O gentle maiden") is a romantic duet from the first act of Giacomo Puccini's 1896 opera La bohème. It is sung as the closing number in act 1 by Rodolfo ( tenor ) and Mimì ( soprano ) where they realise they have fallen for each other.
The Italian composer Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) is regarded as the natural successor to the tradition of Giuseppe Verdi and is considered the greatest Italian opera proponent of his time. Best known for his 12 operas , his style quickly departed from the predominant Romantic Italian style and he emerged as the most significant representative ...