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  • Actors: Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna, Ruggero Raimondi, David Cangelosi, Sorin Coliban
  • Format: Classical, PAL, Widescreen
  • Language Italian
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Classification: Exempt
  • Studio: Opus Arte
  • DVD Release Date: 23 Jun 2003
  • Run Time: 141 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00009XW7Z
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 18,824 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Benoit Jacquot's filmed Tosca treads a fine line between operatic staginess and cinematic contrivance. As per the libretto, each act takes place in a single setting, but with the singers here miming to a pre-recorded soundtrack. Jacquot freely reminds us of the conceit with cutaways to the recording session itself--revealing conductor, orchestra and soloists at work--thus a bridge is made between the on-screen action and the music-making itself, and the inherent duality of any opera production is laid refreshingly bare. The same cannot be said for the director's decision to interpolate spoken dialogue over the music in key places--a distraction not an enhancement.

Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna are glamorous and attractive enough to make the most of their Hollywood-style close-ups; their singing easily bears similar close scrutiny--as anyone who owns the CD soundtrack album will surely already know. If Alagna lacks a little power as Cavaradossi on record, his charismatic screen presence happily compensates; Gheorghiu is both vocally and physically almost ideal as Tosca. Ruggero Raimondi's Scarpia completes an outstanding trio, and in the pit (or, rather, in the studio) conductor Antonio Pappano handles the drama of Puccini's score without missing a single nuance. Both musically and visually, then, this is a Tosca to treasure.

On the DVD: Tosca on disc looks vibrant in this warm, widescreen picture accompanied by a DTS 5.1 soundtrack. Three filmed interviews--with Gheorghiu, Pappano and Jacquot--provide some insight into the making of this production. --Mark Walker



Special Features

Soprano Angela Gheorghiu on her role as Tosca
Director Benoit Jacquot on creating Tosca as a film
Antonio Pappano on Puccini's music for the oper
16:9 Anamorphic
LPCM Stereo, DTS 5.1
Subtitles: GB
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars insensitive filming spoils magnificent performance, 12 Sep 2008
By Mrs. J. F. Green "catbosun" (Devon UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tosca [DVD] [2002] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
Superb performances by a stellar cast are badly marred by intrusive and unneccessary insertions of rehearsal and recording shots, even worse, occasional commentary. This DVD should not be marketed as an opera production, it is a travesty, destroying the atmosphere at some of the most sublime moments, Puccini must be turning in his grave and I am appalled that the Royal Opera House allowed their excellent production to be tampered with in this way.
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20 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A rather shaky balance, 22 Feb 2004
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This is a hard to love 'Tosca', but obviously its level of ambition is praiseworthy.
Benoit Jacquot does not seem to be too well-versed in the grammar of moviemaking. He manages a very shaky balance between the melodrama of the action, induced by the music, and the naturalism of the cinema verité-inspired recording sessions in everyday clothes. It is plain affectation when for instance the tenor whispers the rhymes as an impassioned line over the same monologue sung as an aria proper.
At its best, which is far too seldom if you ask me, this is a dynamic, even explosive 'Tosca', brilliantly sung and conducted by Antonio Pappano who really knows this music.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Why spoil such an excellent performance, 26 Oct 2008
Musically very, very good. Howver, if all I wanted was the sound I'd have bought a cd instead.
The stage performances are good, but the whole thing is marred by at intervals the view suddenly flashing with no warning from the stage to a rehearsal room with the singers out of costume & orchestra in shirtsleeves (without a break in the music!).
At the opera, whether in the operahouse or watching a dvd I want to watch the story being performed and sung while "suspending disbelief" and almost "living the story" as it were.
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