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Article: Tosca up as to who will hit hardest as opera heavyweights slug it out; ROME.
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- July 5, 2000
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Italy's two leading composers go head to head this year in a battle of the anniversaries - the centenary of the death of Giuseppe Verdi and 100 years since the first staging of Giacomo Puccini's Tosca.
Verdi and Puccini divide Italian music lovers. Traditionalists love Verdi, the elder and perhaps more classical of the two. Populists prefer Puccini, sometimes described as the Andrew Lloyd Webber of his ...