Great Operas at the Met, TOSCA, Giacomo Puccini 1992 2-CD Set Booklet, Excellent

Description: Great Operas at the Met, TOSCA, Giacomo Puccini 1992 2-CD Set Booklet, Excellent Two CD set and case in very good or better condition. Excellent booklet. $4.50 domestic shipping. International shipping at cost. Please email with any questions. Experience the timeless beauty of the opera with this 2-CD set of "Tosca" by Giacomo Puccini. Immerse yourself in the powerful emotions conveyed by the stunning performance of the Metropolitan Opera Guild. This release features an excellent CD grading and comes with a booklet to further enhance your listening experience. Indulge in the pure pleasure of music without worrying about the condition of the CD case and inlay. The record label BMG presents this masterpiece, released in 1992 as a part of the Great Operas at the Met collection. Add this gem to your collection and relish the exquisite artistry of the opera. 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. It contains depictions of torture, murder, and suicide, as well as some of Puccini's best-known lyrical arias.Puccini saw Sardou's play when it was touring Italy in 1889 and, after some vacillation, obtained the rights to turn the work into an opera in 1895. Turning the wordy French play into a succinct Italian opera took four years, during which the composer repeatedly argued with his librettists and publisher. 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.Musically, Tosca is structured as a through-composed work, with arias, recitative, choruses and other elements musically woven into a seamless whole. Puccini used Wagnerian leitmotifs to identify characters, objects and ideas. While critics have often dismissed the opera as a facile melodrama with confusions of plot—musicologist Joseph Kerman famously called it a "shabby little shocker"[1][2][3]—the power of its score and the inventiveness of its orchestration have been widely acknowledged. The dramatic force of Tosca and its characters continues to fascinate both performers and audiences, and the work remains one of the most frequently performed operas. Many recordings of the work have been issued, both of studio and live performances.

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