Puccini: Tosca
Anja Harteros, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Ludovic Tézier
Salzburger Bachchor & Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2019, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
This production does a fine job of underlining just what a resonant opera Tosca is for our times…Harteros is a chic, grown-up, no-nonsense Tosca…She is on top form vocally, particularly rich...
Puccini: Tosca
Anja Harteros, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Ludovic Tézier
Salzburger Bachchor & Staatskapelle Dresden, Christian Thielemann
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2019, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
This production does a fine job of underlining just what a resonant opera Tosca is for our times…Harteros is a chic, grown-up, no-nonsense Tosca…She is on top form vocally, particularly rich...
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Premiered in 1900 with huge success, Puccinis 'melodramma' Tosca is a political thriller with a heart-breaking love story. With his gripping opening scene, stage director Michael Sturminger sets the tone for a cinematic, richly detailed Tosca which is set in the Mafiosi world of modern day Rome and which is 'the perfect thriller reminiscent of Scorseses 'Goodfellas' (Kleine Zeitung), a film noir (FAZ). In this production soprano Anja Harteros is a phenomenal Tosca! (Kurier), unparalleled in the world (Der Standard) and Aleksandrs Antoenko is a Cavaradossi of superlatives (Kieler Nachrichten). The Staatskapelle Dresden under Christian Thielemann 'show again that he is not only a master of German repertoire but also strikes the right note in Italian repertoire'. (Focus)
Recording date: Salzburg Easter Festival, April 2018
Sound format: PCM Stereo, DTS 5.0
Picture: NTSC 16:9
Subtitles: Italian (original language), English, German, French, Spanish, Korean, Japanese
Booklet: English, German, French
Total running time: 120 mins
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- Anja Harteros, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Ludovic Tézier
- Salzburger Bachchor & Staatskapelle Dresden
- Christian Thielemann
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Awards and reviews
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Gramophone MagazineMay 2019DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
May 2019
This production does a fine job of underlining just what a resonant opera Tosca is for our times…Harteros is a chic, grown-up, no-nonsense Tosca…She is on top form vocally, particularly rich in the dramatic chest register…Thielemann and the Staatskapelle Dresden provide sympathetic support to the proceedings…This is a bitter-chocolate thriller of a production, with a hell of a plot twist at the end.
May 2019
The setting here is clearly the present day… for the most part it works very well…The outstanding Anja Harteros is a chic Tosca in shades and slacks…Tézier’s aristocratic baritone suits the suave Godfather scenario…Thielemann wouldn’t necessarily be everyone’s – anyone’s? – idea of a natural Puccini conductor but there’s a certain plush symphonic grandeur to the Staatskapelle’s playing which is highly persuasive.
May 2019
Excellent performances by the singers and musicians…a most impressive and exciting Tosca.
