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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, Puccini’s ‘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 Scorsese’s ‘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 Antoņenko 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
