Article: Puccini: Tosca

PUCCINI: Tosca

* Guleghina; Licitra, Nucci; Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala, Muti. Subtitles in English, French, Spanish, Italian. EuroArts/TDK DVD 115008 9 DVUS-OPTOS (Naxos, dist.), 121 mins.

Luca Ronconi's staging (La Scala, 2000) of Puccini's pot-boiler, with its severely angled sets and raked floors, fares better onscreen than it did in the house, due to the added variety of close-ups alternating with dizzying views of the caving-in walls of the Church of Sant'Andrea della Valle, Palazzo Farnese and the top of the Castel Sant'Angelo, where even the cell features folded-out walls, from which it would be easy to escape. It all seems to have something to do with the collapse of the ...

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