Puccini: Tosca

Tamara Milashkina (Floria Tosca), Vladimir Atlantov (Mario Cavaradossi), Yuri Mazurok (Baron Scarpia), Valeri Yaroslavtsev (Cesare Angelotti), Vitali Nartov (Sacristan), Andrei Sokolov (Spoletta), Vladimir Filippov (Sciarrone), Мikhail Shkaptsov ((A Jailer), Alexander Pavlov ((A Shepherd boy)

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Milashkina's Slavic vowels won't suit everyone, but she and Atlantov make an ardent pair, with Mazurok a snarling Scarpia in this characterful production. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2016, 4 out of 5 stars

Release Date: 31st Jul 2015
Catalogue No: MELCD1002359
Label: Melodiya
Length: 1 hour 54 minutes

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Puccini: Tosca

Work length1:54:04

Mikhail Shkaptsov, Valery Yaroslavtsev, Vitali Nartov, Vladimir Atlantov, Tamara Milashkina, Andrei Sokolov, Alexander Pavlov, Vladimir Filippov, Yuri Mazurok
USSR Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, USSR Bolshoi Theatre Choir
Mark Ermler

"Ah! Finalmente!"

Track length2:03

"E sempre lava!"

Track length2:15

"Che fai?"

Track length5:26

"Gente là dentro"

Track length1:05

"Mario! Mario! Mario! Son qui!"

Track length13:52

"È buona la mia Tosca"

Track length3:40

"Sommo giubilo, Eccellenza!"

Track length1:28

"Un tal baccano in chiesa!"

Track length4:00

"Mario?! Mario? Il pittor Cavaradossi?"

Track length7:04

"Tre sbirri, una carrozza"

Track length4:47

"Tosca è un buon falco!"

Track length4:30

"O galantuomo, come andò la caccia?"

Track length1:34

"Tal violenza!"

Track length2:57

"O bei tratti di corda!"

Track length14:01

"Quanto? Quanto? Il prezzo!"

Track length4:35

"Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore"

Track length3:38

"Vedi, le man giunte io stendo a te!"

Track length10:00

"Io de' sospiri"

Track length5:12

"Mario Cavaradossi? A voi"

Track length4:07

"E lucevan le stelle"

Track length3:03

"Ah! Franchigia a Floria Tosca"

Track length10:39

"L'ora! Son pronto"

Track length4:08

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Firma Melodiya presents a rare recording of Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca.

One of the most popular operas of the world repertoire, Tosca was finished in the last year of the 19th century. It was based on the French playwright Victorien Sardou’s drama written for Sarah Bernhardt. The premiere of the opera that took place in 1900 in Rome was not accepted with much enthusiasm, and only the performance at La Scala under Arturo Toscanini became a true triumph.

The story of singer Floria Tosca and her beloved painter Mario Cavaradossi, who fell victim to bloody despot Baron Scarpia on the background of the revolutionary events in Italy of the early 19th century, is still able to move to the innermost of one’s heart as the heat of dramatic fervour is masterfully captured in the music.

Numerous audio and video recordings of the opera featuring the world’s best singers and conductors were made in the previous century.

This recording was realized by the USSR Bolshoi Theatre in 1974. The celebrated internationally recognized soloists of the opera company of the 1970s - Tamara Milashkina, Vladimir Atlantov, Yuri Mazurok and others - perform the opera in the original language under the prominent conductor Mark Ermler.

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Choir and orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre, Mark Ermler

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January 2016

Milashkina's Slavic vowels won't suit everyone, but she and Atlantov make an ardent pair, with Mazurok a snarling Scarpia in this characterful production.

Puccini: Tosca

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