Tosca

...to that skeleton. " One of the director's biggest successes in opera was a rendition of Puccini's "Tosca," which he created for Covent Garden in 2006 with glamorous Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu in the lead role. The stakes were high...

In this article: Richard Strauss, Mariinsky Theater, Elektra, Carl Jung, Arthur Schopenhauer, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Orchestration

(It is now preserved on DVD.) Gobbi and Callas had previously sung Tosca together in a classic 1953 EMI recording of the opera made in Milan, with Giuseppe Di Stefano as Cavaradossi and Victor de Sabata conducting. That 1953 album was re-issued...

In this article: Tito Gobbi, Gaetano Donizetti, EMI, Maria Callas, Covent Garden, Simon Boccanegra, and Pagliacci

...production. Lyric's production could be called "Zeffirelli's Revenge," because it uses his entire staging, including the original sets created for the London production of "Tosca" he built around Maria Callas in 1964. Lyric bought those...

In this article: Deborah Voigt and New York

...broadcast?" she quickly asked). Mattila might not be a natural Tosca, with the hard-edged spinto of, say, a Callas, but she brought drama and fidelity to the role by making it believable and frightening. The Argentinian tenor Marcelo...

In this article: Karita Mattila, James Levine, Marcelo Alvarez, Alex Ross, Act I, New York, Sant'Andrea della Valle, and The New Yorker

But modern-day sopranos have a lot to live up to. Probably the most famous Tosca of all was Maria Callas, who was also known as "La Divina," which tells you everything you need to know. Noda said that Ms. Behrens had enormous respect for...

In this article: Hildegard Behrens, Maria Callas, God, Covent Garden, Aortic aneurysm, and Metropolitan Opera

...several "Toscas" in Chicago. Strangely enough, soprano Maria Callas never sang Tosca, one of her most iconic roles, at the Lyric, the company she chose for her American debut in 1954. Yet her spirit haunts the historic...

In this article: Maria Callas, Faust, Emmanuel Villaume, The Marriage of Figaro, and The Merry Widow

...in the middle of Act II of "Traviata. " Puccini almost certainly would have rejected a split-level approach to Act III of "Tosca," with Cavaradossi, Tosca's lover, singing about the stars in a dungeon. (Zeffirelli in his younger days was...

In this article: Peter Gelb, Franco Zeffirelli, Tito Gobbi, Act II, Traviata, Karita Mattila, and Maria Callas

...1965. It was at the Royal Opera House where, on July 5, 1965, Callas ended her stage career in the role of ''Tosca, in a production designed and mounted for her by Franco Zeffirelli and featuring her friend and colleague Tito Gobbi. In the...

In this article: Maria Callas, Renata Tebaldi, Elvira de Hidalgo, La Scala, Aristotle Onassis, Michael Scott, and Pasta