We wanted to offer a few curated playlists of even more operas for you to watch while we’re all staying home. Also a few companies like On-site Opera and The American Opera Project have made some great contemporary works like Laura Kaminsky’s As One, Nkeiru Okoye’s Harriet Tubman, and John Musto and Eric Einhorn’s Rhoda and the Fossil Hunt available online as well. Carol Anderson is video previews for each of the streams that are shared on Utah Opera’s Facebook page. For example, The Metropolitan Opera is streaming a nightly opera from their archives for free-and Utah Opera’s Principal Coach Dr.
I was so spellbound by her performance throughout that passage, when it was all over and quiet again, and she'd managed to pry from his dead fingers the safe-conduct for herself and Mario, it was a jolt to hear her SING the words, 'E avanti a lui tremava tutta Roma!' I was so drawn into the drama at that point, I'd forgotten I was watching an opera.With all of this social distancing going on, we need an opera fix! Although we can’t be in the Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre performing live for you, there is a treasure trove of great, full-length operas available online. She practically screams at him 'Questo e il baccio di Tosca!' and I almost thought she was going to lunge forward and stab him again. From the moment she whirls about and stabs Scarpia, Behrens is just blazing with fury and passion. But it's all compensated by her terrific acting at the end of Act II. What with having to face towards an audience and do all the exertion required for singing, it's just not reasonable to expect really energetic fighting, struggling and racing about. Hildegard Behrens is likewise a bit stiff through most of the opera, though I think part of it, again, is just the necessary limitations of live performance. He is suitably repulsive, though, when he actually caresses Tosca - you do get a feeling that the ordeal she's facing is unendurable, and it provides a nice buildup to the violence that follows. He is a little too jolly to be frightening Raimondi brought out truly scary undertones of rage and disappointment in the character, whereas MacNeil is more of a politician and a bon vivant. I was spoiled by Ruggero Raimondi's excellent acting when he played Scarpia, and MacNeil is a bit stolid in comparison. Cornell MacNeil is not my idea of Scarpia, but I find his performance grows on me the more I watch it. (I hope they used real incense and not dry ice - it's not often you can almost *smell* an opera through the screen!) Placido Domingo is really great as Cavaradossi - he's so virile and appealing, you really can imagine him being ready to fight his way past opponents when he and Angelotti escape from the church.
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Even seeing it on TV is spectacular - I can only imagine what it was like to actually be there in the theater. The set design is stunning the conclusion of Act I is like seeing David's painting of Napoleon crowning Josephine brought to life. I realize that as a stage production, it would have to be quite different from a "movie" of the opera, and though it has its necessary limitations, it also has some quite lovely compensations. I prefer the 2001 film version by Benoit, but this one is still very fine.
I'm no great opera expert, but I like Tosca, and am trying to see as many versions as possible.
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