Happy B-Day, Tosca
Torture, murder, and suicide set to music
Giacomo Puccini's Tosca is back -- this time on the silver screen. Puccini's melodramatic opera, based on the French-language play La Tosca Victorien Sardou, is celebrating its 110th birthday by touring the country in a filmed version. There may not be sexy teenaged vampires in this movie, but there’s still plenty of blood and overwrought romance.
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Set in Rome in 1800, the opera also contains torture, murder, and suicide as well as some of Puccini's best-known arias, in a tale of rape, murder, and warring political factions. Tosca remains one of the most frequently performed operas in the world. It’s structured as a through-composed work, and its new film translation of a live performance in Genoa, Italy is heralded as superb.
Filmed in June 2010 at the Teatro Carlo Felice and sung in Italian with English subtitles, Tosca has a running time just less than two hours. The opera will show at several Valley Harkins Theatres.
Thu., Sept. 23, 2010
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