Tosca - Metropolitan Opera
8.1
A stellar cast brings Puccini’s spellbinding opera to life, seizing every opportunity to thrill the audience. Luciano Pavarotti is Cavaradossi, the painter and political revolutionary in love with the beautiful and famous singer Tosca (the riveting Shirley Verrett). Rome’s diabolical chief of police, Baron Scarpia (Cornell MacNeil), wants Tosca for himself—but he underestimates the fury of a woman in love. With torture, murder, and a suicide in its final moments, Tosca packs more dramatic punches than most other operas—and this classic telecast captures them all. James Conlon conducts in a production by the incomparable Tito Gobbi, one of the great Scarpias of the 20th century.
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Shirley Verrett
Floria Tosca
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Mario Cavaradossi
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Cornell MacNeil
Scarpia
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Fernando Corena
Sacristan
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John Cheek
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Sciarrone
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Robert Sapolsky
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Philip Booth
Jailer
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James Conlon
Self - Conductor
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Tito Gobbi Director · Kirk Browning Director Giuseppe Giacosa Writer
United States release December 19, 1978 · Produced in United States · Production Virgin Classics, The Metropolitan Opera
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Decca
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Virgin Classics
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The Metropolitan Opera
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United States
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Original language
Italian
Spoken on screen
Italian
Release dates
United States · December 19, 1978
Limited theatrical
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