Tosca
- Title
- Tosca / Giacomo Puccini ; production by Franco Zeffirelli.
- Published by
- Hollywood, CA : Bel Canto/Paramount Home Video, ©1985.
- Author
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- Additional authors
- Description
- 1 videocassette (VHS) : sound, color; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- Cavaradossi the painter is arrested and tortured for helping Angelotti, a political prisoner, to escape. His lady love, Tosca, promises herself to Scarpia, the chief of police, in order to obtain Cavaradossi's release. When he is executed anyway, Tosca kills herself.
- Series statement
- Live from the Met
- Uniform title
- Live from the Met.
- Alternative title
- Tosca, Zeffirelli and Rome.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Operas.
- Video tapes.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Note
- Opera in three acts.
- At head of title: The Metropolitan Opera.
- Sung in Italian; subtitles in English.
- Libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, after the drama by Victorien Sardou.
- VHS; hi-fi, stereo., Dolby processed.
- Program notes by David Hamilton and synopsis (10 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.) included.
- "Tosca, Zeffirelli and Rome," an interview with Franco Zeffirelli as he guides the viewer through the historic sites of Puccini's opera, appended at end.
- Bel Canto/Paramount Home Video: 2370.
- Credits (note)
- Production and set design by Franco Zeffirelli.
- Event (note)
- Performed Mar. 20 and 27, 1985, at the Metropolitan Opera.
- System details (note)
- VHS, Hi-fi.