This listing is for LYRIC Opera Of Chicago TOSCA Stagebill Magazine 46th Season 2000-2001.
Title: LYRIC Opera Of Chicago TOSCA Stagebill
Publisher: Stagebill, Inc (2000)
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Softcover
Language: English
Pages: 72
Condition: Very Good, Clean Text
Dust Jacket Condition: no dust jacket
Edition: TOSCA edition
Tosca - Giacomo Puccini
2000-2001 Dates: Jan. 13, 17 (matinee), 20, 23, 26, 31; March 3 (matinee), 7, 9, 12, 15, 17 / In Italian
The Mr. and Mrs. Sidney L. Port production. Revival made possible by Howard Stotler, an anonymous donor and the Alyce DeCosta/Walter E. Heller Foundation.
Production co-owned with the San Francisco Opera. LYRIC Opera Of Chicago 2000-2001 TOSCA lineup includes:
Cesare Angelotti Christopher Feigum
Sacristan Dale Travis
Mario Cavaradossi Marcello Giordani (January)
Mario Cavaradossi Fabio Armiliato (Jan. 31.)
Mario Cavaradossi Vincenzo La Scola (March)
Floria Tosca Daniela Dessì (January)
Floria Tosca Sylvie Valayre (March)
Baron Scarpia Ruggero Raimondi (January)
Baron Scarpia Jean-Philippe Lafont (March)
Spoletta David Cangelosi
Sciarrone Andrew Funk
Shepherd Boy Melina Pyron
Jailer Samuel Smith
Conductor Bruno Bartoletti
Stage Director John Copley
Set Designer Tony Walton
Costume Designer Willa Kim
Lighting Designer Duane Schuler
Chorus Master Donald Palumbo
Children's Chorus Master Josephine Lee
Wig and Makeup Designer Richard Jarvie
Associate Stage Director Leslie Halla
Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1887 French-language dramatic play, La Tosca, is a melodramatic piece set in Rome in June 1800, with the Kingdom of Naples's control of Rome threatened by Napoleon's invasion of Italy. It contains depictions of torture, murder, and suicide, as well as some of Puccini's best-known lyrical arias. Puccini saw Sardou's play when it was touring Italy in 1889 and, after some vacillation, obtained the rights to turn the work into an opera in 1895. Turning the wordy French play into a succinct Italian opera took four years, during which the composer repeatedly argued with his librettists and publisher. Tosca premiered at a time of unrest in Rome, and its first performance was delayed for a day for fear of disturbances. Despite indifferent reviews from the critics, the opera was an immediate success with the public. Musically, Tosca is structured as a through-composed work, with arias, recitative, choruses and other elements musically woven into a seamless whole. Puccini used Wagnerian leitmotifs to identify characters, objects and ideas. While critics have often dismissed the opera as a facile melodrama with confusions of plot—musicologist Joseph Kerman famously called it a "shabby little shocker" — the power of its score and the inventiveness of its orchestration have been widely acknowledged. The dramatic force of Tosca and its characters continues to fascinate both performers and audiences, and the work remains one of the most frequently performed operas. Many recordings of the work have been issued, both of studio and live performances.
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