![]() TO THE COMPLETE PUCCINI BIOGRAPHYĭestination Castel Sant’Angelo (Angel’s castle)Įvery opera lover knows the famous angel statue of Castel Sant’Angelo, which can be seen in the third act of Tosca. As if that were not enough, Puccini also presents the audience with a torture scene on stage in the second act.Īfter the lukewarm reception, the first Milan performance took place shortly thereafter at La Scala under the baton of Arturo Toscanini, which became a great success and was to pave the work’s glorious way. ![]() ![]() ![]() Thus, at the end of the opera, no main character remains alive. In addition, the leading actress commits a murder. Indeed, “Tosca” is one of the most bloodthirsty operas in the repertoire. However, the success of the premiere was moderate, the brutality (critics said “banality”) of the music was too unusual, there was even talk of a “torture opera”. Among the celebrities was Siegfried Wagner, who praised the work, which was an accolade for the Wagner fan Puccini. However the Romans would not be appeased and a bomb threat threatened to derail the performance at the last minute, but the play was then given. Peter’s Basilica and commissioned a Roman writer to compose the lines of the shepherd boy in original Roman dialect. In addition, he tried to imitate the bell sounds of the nearby St. Puccini had taken great pains to make the original Roman settings as authentic as possible (with the help of Hohenstein’s famous sketches) in the style of verismo. Already in the run-up the mood was hostile, on the one hand because the Romans were offended, since Puccini undertook an invasion of the Milanese with the artists of La Scala, and on the other hand because the papal church acted against the anti-clerical background. Puccini’s main event in Rome was the premiere of his “Tosca”, which was then a huge event and was even attended by Queen Margaret (yes, the one with the pizza). Unis dès la plus tendre enfance (Iphigenia).Madamina, il catalogo, Catalogue Aria (Don Giovanni).Je dis que rien ne m’epouvante (Carmen).Glück, das mir verblieb (Die tote Stadt).Dies Bildnis ist wunderschön (Zauberflöte). ![]() Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (Land des Lächelns). ![]()
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