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Puccini: Tosca

Maria Callas (Tosca), Giuseppe Di Stefano (Cavaradossi), Tito Gobbi (Scarpia), Franco Calabrese (Angelotti), Angelo Mercuriali (Spoletta), Melchiorre Luise (Sagristano), Dario Caselli (Carceriere), Alvaro Cordova (Pastor)

Orchestra e Chorus del Teatro alla Scala, Milano, Victor de Sabata

Puccini: Tosca
in 1953 [Callas] is caught at her peak, her voice perfectly under control and the characteristic insights she brought to its tiniest details fully developed...[de Sabata's] combination of fire...

BBC Music Magazine, January 2012

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Puccini: Tosca

Maria Callas (Tosca), Giuseppe Di Stefano (Cavaradossi), Tito Gobbi (Scarpia), Franco Calabrese (Angelotti), Angelo Mercuriali (Spoletta), Melchiorre Luise (Sagristano), Dario Caselli (Carceriere), Alvaro Cordova (Pastor)

Orchestra e Chorus del Teatro alla Scala, Milano, Victor de Sabata

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in 1953 [Callas] is caught at her peak, her voice perfectly under control and the characteristic insights she brought to its tiniest details fully developed...[de Sabata's] combination of fire...

BBC Music Magazine, January 2012

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The brand new series celebrates EMI - The Home of Opera with de Sabata's legendary recording of Tosca with Maria Callas and Giuseppe di Stefano. Includes complete libretto and synopsis on a bonus CD ROM.

Contents and tracklist

Puccini: Tosca
Work length1:49:06
Ah! Finalmente! (Angelotti)
Track length2:06
E sempre lava! (Sagrestano / Cavaradossi)
Track length2:15
Sante ampolle! Il suo ritratto! (Sagrestano / Cavaradossi)
Track length1:14
Dammi i colori!...Recondita armonia (Cavaradossi / Sagrestano)
Track length4:24
Gente là dentro! (Cavaradossi / Angelotti / Tosca)
Track length1:10
Mario! Mario! Mario!....Son qui! (Tosca / Cavaradossi)
Track length2:03
Ora stammi a sentir (Tosca / Cavaradossi)
Track length3:10
Or lasciami al lavoro (Tosca / Cavaradossi)
Track length1:47
Ah, quegli occhi! Quale occhio al mondo (Tosca / Cavaradossi)
Track length1:34
Mia gelosa! (Tosca / Cavaradossi)
Track length3:35
È buona la mia Tosca (Cavaradossi / Angelotti)
Track length3:31
Sommo giubilo, Eccellenza! (Sagrestano / Chierici, Confratelli, Allievi e Cantori della cappella)
Track length1:22
Un tal baccano in chiesa! (Scarpia / Sagrestano / Spoletta)
Track length3:44
Tosca? Che non mi veda (Scarpia / Tosca / Sagrestano)
Track length2:51
Ed io venivo a lui tutta dogliosa (Tosca / Scarpia)
Track length3:46
Tre sbirri, una carrozza...(Scarpia / Spoletta / Chierici / Confratelli / Allievi / Cantori e Capitolo della cappella / Folla)
Track length4:29
Tosca è un buon falco! (Scarpia / Sciarrone)
Track length3:08
Ha più forte sapore (Scarpia / Sciarrone)
Track length1:16
O galantuomo, come andòla caccia? (Scarpia / Spoletta)
Track length1:01
Meno male! (Scarpia / Cavaradossi / Spoletta / Tosca)
Track length2:31
Ov'è Angelotti? (Scarpia / Cavaradossi / Spoletta / Tosca)
Track length2:47
Ed or fra noi parliam da buoni amici (Scarpia / Tosca)
Track length1:08
Sciarrone, che dice il Cavalier? (Scarpia / Sciarrone / Tosca / La voce di Cavaradossi)
Track length2:52
Orsù, Tosca, parlate (Scarpia / Tosca / La voce di Cavaradossi / Spoletta / Sciarrone)
Track length3:27
Floria!...Amore (Cavaradossi / Tosca / Scarpia / Sciarrone)
Track length2:42
Salvatelo!...Io? Voi! (Tosca / Scarpia)
Track length2:11
Se la giurata fede debbo tradir (Tosca / Scarpia)
Track length2:12
Come tu m'odii! (Tosca / Scarpia)
Track length1:25
Tosca, Act 2: "Vissi d'arte" (Tosca)
Track length3:15
Vedi, le man giunte io stendo a te! (Tosca / Scarpia / Spoletta)
Track length3:11
Io tenni la promessa (Scarpia / Tosca)
Track length2:03
Tosca, finalmente mia! (Scarpia / Tosca)
Track length1:16
Or gli perdono! (Tosca)
Track length3:47
Andante sostenuto... (Orchestra) Io de'sospiri (Pastore)
Track length2:49
Lento (Le campane suonano mattutino) (Orchestra)
Track length2:48
Largo...(Orchestra)....Mario Cavaradossi? A voi...(Carceriere / Cavaradossi)...Meno (Orchestra)
Track length4:04
E lucevan le stelle (Cavaradossi)
Track length2:48
Moderato con moto (Orchestra)..Ah! Franchigia a Floria Tosca (Cavaradossi / Tosca)
Track length2:34
O dolci mani mansuete e pure (Cavaradossi)
Track length1:29
Senti, l'ora è vicina (Tosca)
Track length1:30
Amaro sol per te m'era il morire (Cavaradossi / Tosca)
Track length1:54
E non giungono (Tosca / Cavaradossi / Carceriere)
Track length2:26
Com'è lunga l'attesa! (Tosca)
Track length2:15
Presto! Su, Mario! (Tosca / Spoletta / Sciarrone / Soldati)
Track length1:16

Awards and reviews

January 2012

in 1953 [Callas] is caught at her peak, her voice perfectly under control and the characteristic insights she brought to its tiniest details fully developed...[de Sabata's] combination of fire and clarity make this the most exciting Tosca on disc...Opera sets rarely get absolutely everything right; this one does.

2010 edition

There has never been a finer recorded performance of Tosca...Gobbi makes the unbelievably villainous police chief into a genuine three-dimensional character, and Di Stefano...was at his finest...The conducting of De Sabata is spaciously lyrical as well as sharply dramatic...it brings a transfer which, taken from the original tapes, has the voices brighter and more immediate than on the Naxos set.
4 out of 4 stars
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