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Giacomo Puccini Tosca ( Floria Tosca ) – opera composed for her voice ; the Soprano ’ s aria was requested to Puccini by Hariclea Darclée suggesting too the principal musicals elements ; the opera was interpreted in prima assoluta at Teatro dell ’ Opera of Rome on 14 January 1900 and in première at Teatro Regio of Turin on 20 February 1900, Teatro alla Scala of Milan on 17 March 1900, Lisbon on 19 January 1901, Bucharest National Theatre on 18 January 1902 and Montecarlo Opera on 28 March 1903 ;
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Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini ( full name: Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini ) (; Lucca 22 December 1858Brussels 29 November 1924 ) was an Italian composer whose operas are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire.
Giacomo Puccini with conductor Arturo Toscanini
Founded in 1996 in Lucca, the Centro Studi Giacomo Puccini embraces a wide range of approaches to the study of Puccini's work.
* Ravenni, Gabriella Biagi and Michele Girardi, Giacomo ( Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria ) Puccini ( ii ) in Grove Music Online, accessed 9 August 2012
* Centro Studi di Giacomo Puccini
* Encyclopædia Britannica, Giacomo Puccini
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Giacomo and Tosca
This was a style introduced by Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana and Ruggiero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci that came virtually to dominate the world's opera stages with such popular works as Giacomo Puccini's La bohème, Tosca, and Madama Butterfly.
Tosca () is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.
** Scarpia, Tosca ( Giacomo Puccini )
The play itself is no longer performed, but its operatic adaptation, Giacomo Puccini's Tosca, has achieved enduring popularity.
He also wrote several plays that were made into popular 19th-century operas such as La Tosca ( 1887 ) on which Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca ( 1900 ) is based, and Fedora by Umberto Giordano, a work that popularized the fedora hat as well.
As a prison, it was also the setting for the third act of Giacomo Puccini's Tosca from whose ramparts the eponymous heroine of the opera leaps to her death.
* Tosca ( Giacomo Puccini ): Francesco Molinari-Pradelli ) conducting the Orchestra dell ' Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, with Mario Del Monaco and George London.
* Tosca ( Giacomo Puccini ): Gianandrea Gavazzeni conducting the La Scala Theatre Orchestra, with Giuseppe di Stefano and Tito Gobbi.
Others, such as the title role in Verdi's Macbeth ( with Elena Souliotis ), Giorgio Germont in Verdi's La traviata, and Scarpia in Giacomo Puccini's Tosca ( with Birgit Nilsson ), are not delivered by him with the same degree of effectiveness.
He made a brief appearance in the 1936 Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald film Rose Marie, singing music from Charles Gounod's Romeo et Juliette and Giacomo Puccini's Tosca, but according to Merchant of Dreams, Charles Higham's biography of Louis B. Mayer, Eddy, who apparently considered Jones a rival and a potential threat, asked that most of Jones's footage in Rose Marie be cut, including his rendition of the great Puccini aria E lucevan le stelle-and MGM agreed to Eddy's demand.
The company's first season opened in February 1944, and included productions of Giacomo Puccini's Tosca, Friedrich von Flotow's Martha and Georges Bizet's Carmen, all of them conducted by Halasz.
** Floria Tosca, Tosca ( Giacomo Puccini )
** Cavaradossi, Tosca ( Giacomo Puccini )
** Scarpia, Tosca ( Giacomo Puccini )
* Scarpia, Tosca ( Giacomo Puccini )
Her last Met appearance was on July 6, 1973 in the title role of Giacomo Puccini's Tosca with Enrico Di Giuseppe as Cavaradossi, Morley Meredith as Scarpia, and Ignace Strasfogel conducting.
Later on in her career with the company she began portraying heavier roles from the dramatic soprano repertoire, including Amelia in Menotti's Amelia Goes to the Ball, Eva in Wagner's Die Meistersinger, the title role in Verdi's Aida, the title roles in Giacomo Puccini's Tosca and Turandot among others.
Sardou's successful La Tosca ( 1887 ), the basis for Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca ( 1900 ), typifies the well-made play in that it compresses its action into an eighteen-hour period, follows a credible unfolding of plot twists, with a shocking dénouement at the final curtain.
He also wrote the librettos used by Giacomo Puccini in La bohème, Tosca and Madama Butterfly in conjunction with Luigi Illica.
Highlights of her later career in Italy from 1890 on included the world-premières of the part of Odalea in Antônio Carlos Gomes ' Condor at La Scala in Milan in 1891, the title-role in Alfredo Catalani's La Wally at the same theater in 1892, Luisa in Mascagni's I Rantzau at the Teatro della Pergola in 1892, and the title roles in Pietro Mascagni's Iris and Giacomo Puccini's Tosca, both at Teatro Costanzi in Rome in 1899 and 1900, respectively.
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