Puccini: Tosca

Disc 1
1	Tosca, opera: Ah! Finalme / Giacomo Puccini
2	Tosca, opera: E sempre la / Giacomo Puccini
3	Tosca, opera: Angelus Dom / Giacomo Puccini
4	Tosca, opera: Dammi i col / Giacomo Puccini
5	Tosca, opera: Recondita a / Giacomo Puccini
6	Tosca, opera: Ma con quei / Giacomo Puccini
7	Tosca, opera: Pieno è il / Giacomo Puccini
8	Tosca, opera: Gente là de / Giacomo Puccini
9	Tosca, opera: Mario! Mari / Giacomo Puccini
10	Tosca, opera: Ora stammi / Giacomo Puccini
11	Tosca, opera: Non la sosp / Giacomo Puccini
12	Tosca, opera: Or lasciami / Giacomo Puccini
13	Tosca, opera: Ah, quegli / Giacomo Puccini
14	Tosca, opera: Mia gelosa! / Giacomo Puccini
15	Tosca, opera: È buona la / Giacomo Puccini
16	Tosca, opera: Il cannon d / Giacomo Puccini
17	Tosca, opera: Tutta qui l / Giacomo Puccini
18	Tosca, opera: Un tal bacc / Giacomo Puccini
19	Tosca, opera: Or tutto è / Giacomo Puccini
20	Tosca, opera: La corona! / Giacomo Puccini
21	Tosca, opera: Oh mio bel / Giacomo Puccini
22	Tosca, opera: Tre sbirri, / Giacomo Puccini
Disc 2
1	Tosca, opera: Tosca è un / Giacomo Puccini
2	Tosca, opera: Ha più fort / Giacomo Puccini
3	Tosca, opera: O galantuom / Giacomo Puccini
4	Tosca, opera: Ch'io lo tr / Giacomo Puccini
5	Tosca, opera: Ov'è Angelo / Giacomo Puccini
6	Tosca, opera: Pria le for / Giacomo Puccini
7	Tosca, opera: Ed or fra n / Giacomo Puccini
8	Tosca, opera: Sciarrone, / Giacomo Puccini
9	Tosca, opera: Orsù, Tosca / Giacomo Puccini
10	Tosca, opera: Floria!... / Giacomo Puccini
11	Tosca, opera: Nel pozzo.. / Giacomo Puccini
12	Tosca, opera: L'alba vind / Giacomo Puccini
13	Tosca, opera: La povera m / Giacomo Puccini
14	Tosca, opera: Quanto?... / Giacomo Puccini
15	Tosca, opera: Se la giura / Giacomo Puccini
16	Tosca, opera: Come tu m'o / Giacomo Puccini
17	Tosca, opera: Vissi d'art / Giacomo Puccini
18	Tosca, opera: Risolvi?... / Giacomo Puccini
19	Tosca, opera: Chi è là? / Giacomo Puccini
20	Tosca, opera: Io tenni la / Giacomo Puccini
21	Tosca, opera: Tosca, fina / Giacomo Puccini
22	Tosca, opera: Or gli perd / Giacomo Puccini
23	Tosca, opera: (Orchestra) / Giacomo Puccini
24	Tosca, opera: Io de; sosp / Giacomo Puccini
25	Tosca, opera: (Orchestra) / Giacomo Puccini
26	Tosca, opera: (Orchestra) / Giacomo Puccini
27	Tosca, opera: Vi resta un / Giacomo Puccini
28	Tosca, opera: (Orchestra) / Giacomo Puccini
29	Tosca, opera: E lucevan l / Giacomo Puccini
30	Tosca, opera: (Orchestra) / Giacomo Puccini
31	Tosca, opera: Il tuo sang / Giacomo Puccini
32	Tosca, opera: O dolci man / Giacomo Puccini
33	Tosca, opera: Senti, I'or / Giacomo Puccini
34	Tosca, opera: Amaro sol p / Giacomo Puccini
35	Tosca, opera: E non giung / Giacomo Puccini
36	Tosca, opera: Come è lung / Giacomo Puccini
37	Tosca, opera: Presto! Su, / Giacomo Puccini
Puccini: Tosca
1.	Tosca, opera 1:53:49
	Composed by Giacomo Puccini
	Performed by Roberto Alagna, Enrico Fissore, Angela Gheorghiu, Gwynne Howell, Peter Manning, Maurizio Muraro, Ruggero Raimondi, David Cangelosi and Sorin Coliban
	Conducted by Antonio Pappano

Barnes & Noble

This recording of Tosca is the soundtrack to a film version of Puccini's opera by the French director Benoit Jacquot -- which might help to explain the performance's exceptionally vivid dramatic atmosphere. From the brutal, menacing opening chords, the story bursts luridly to life. Angela Gheorghiu is a Tosca in the Callas mold, her voice dark and her passions intense; here is a true diva, a woman less concerned with being endearing than with commanding respect. Roberto Alagna is a rough-hewn Cavaradossi, not as sweet of voice as usual but every inch the ardent revolutionary. Ruggero Raimondi's voice has lost some of its focus, but he is still a chilling Scarpia -- one whose power is enhanced because he can actually turn on the charm. But the real star here is conductor Antonio Pappano; his direction generates powerful blasts of emotional heat. The recorded sound seems larger-than-life, as befits this sordid tale. A knock out! Andrew Farach-Colton

Gramophone

Antonio Pappano’s conducting alone would make this a Tosca of distinction.... [Gheorghiu] is impetuous, nervously intense, the rapid beat in her tone used for expressive ends (but she is capable also of a lovely, quiet purity). She is a very complete Tosca.... [Alagna] is in fine, mostly full voice.... The recording is all that could be wished. Michael Oliver