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This is a discography of Tosca, an opera by Giacomo Puccini. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. Tosca has been one of the most frequently recorded operas, dating back to a nearly complete acoustical recording in 1918.

Audio

Video

References

Notes

1. Recordings of Tosca on operadis-opera-discography.org.uk
2. This recording has been described as the best selling opera of all time. Opera: An Encyclopedia of World Premieres and Significant Performances, Singers, Composers, Librettists, Arias and Conductors, 1597–2000, Franklin Mesa (2007), p. 85: "His 1952 performance on EMI of Tosca with Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano and Tito Gobbi remains the best-selling opera recording of all time."
3. Tosca, 19 December 1978, Met Opera on Demand; CID: 255930, Met Opera DB.
4. Tosca (1984) at IMDb
5. Tosca, March 27, 1985, Met Opera on Demand.
6. ASIN B00CSVD1A0.
7. ASIN B074T239HD.
8. Tosca, October 10, 2009, Met Opera on Demand.
9. Richard Fairman, "EMI issues the BBC-broadcast Tosca by Jonathan Kent", Gramophone, January 2013, pp. 80–81: "On balance, this new DVD is as involving at every level as any."
10. Tosca, November 9, 2013, Met Opera on Demand.
11. Neil Fisher, Tosca, 2017 Baden-Baden Easter Festival, Gramophone, January 2018, pp. 89, 91: " Simon Rattle’s second foray into Puccini. ... the result, although decently captured on DVD/Blu‑ray, is oddly flavourless."
12. Tosca, January 27, 2018, Met Opera on Demand.
13. Mark Pullinger, Tosca, 2018 Salzburg Easter Festival, Gramophone, May 2019, p. 95: "... this is Puccini's Tosca as a thriller ... And for the most part it works very well, leading to a denouement which is, well, thrilling."
14. Vienna State Opera, 2019. Blu-ray, 2021, OCLC 1287594802: "Piotr Beczala celebrated his acclaimed role debut as Cavaradossi".
15. Mark Pullinger, "Puccini's Tosca", Gramophone, August 2022, pp. 100–105: "Alas, it’s a bit of a routine performance under Marco Armiliato, although Piotr Beczała sings gorgeously as Cavaradossi and – yes – is granted an encore of ‘E lucevan le stelle’."
16. ^ Neil Fisher, "Two Toscas, two very different shows – and two valuable records of projects giving Puccini a spring clean.", Gramophone, July 2023, pp. 83–84.

Sources

• Blyth, Alan, ed. Opera on Record. Hutchinson & Co., London. 1979.
• Gruber, Paul, ed. The Metropolitan Opera Guide to Recorded Opera. W. W. Norton & Co., New York. 1993.

External links

Media related to Tosca at Wikimedia Commons

• Opera discographies
• Operas by Giacomo Puccini