Puccini: Tosca (DVD) – Sonya Yoncheva, Vittorio Grigolo

Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Artists: Sonya Yoncheva, Vittorio Grigolo, Roman Burdenko, Giorgi Manoshvili, Giulio Mastrototaro, Carlo Bosi, Nicolò Ceriani, Dario Giorgelè, Erika Zaha, Chorus & Orchestra of the Arena di Verona
Conductor: Francesco Ivan Ciampa
Director: Hugo de Ana
Video Format: NTSC 16:9
Audio Format: PCM Stereo / DTS 5.1
Region: All Regions
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Korean
Number of Discs: 1
Studio: C Major
Release Date: November 15, 2024
Run Time: 134 minutes

It is an event that attracts thousands of music lovers to Verona every summer: the opera season in the ancient Roman Arena. Nearly 22,000 spectators regularly fill the amphitheater for the performances. 

The dream couple of opera, Sonya Yoncheva and Vittorio Grigolo, return to the breathtaking open-air stage to perform Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca. Bulgarian soprano Sonya Yoncheva is “one of the best Toscas currently singing” and Vittorio Grigolo “the most Italian Cavaradossi we know. With lots of wonderful melting, elegant and nonchalant, full of triumphant greatness, a triumph all along the line” (Online Merker). 

The captivating staging by Argentine director Hugo de Ana, who masterfully exploits the amphitheatre’s vast space by placing huge elements on the stage that are reminiscent of or borrowed from the locations of the action, makes the opera a “spectacle of monumental opulence” (Online Merker). 

“A Tosca to relish!” (Artesnews.it) 

“Standing ovation Tosca at the Arena di Verona” (Operalife)

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