This live 1958 recording of Tosca at La Scala is likely to be of interest primarily to listeners willing to put up with a an annoyingly high noise level. The unrelenting tape hiss is loud enough to mask details of the orchestration. The prompter is frequently very intrusive, the enthusiastic audience makes its presence known with outbursts of applause, and most distractingly, the engineering is so sloppy that the sound occasionally flips back and forth between speakers. The voices, though, are miked at a high enough level ...
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This live 1958 recording of Tosca at La Scala is likely to be of interest primarily to listeners willing to put up with a an annoyingly high noise level. The unrelenting tape hiss is loud enough to mask details of the orchestration. The prompter is frequently very intrusive, the enthusiastic audience makes its presence known with outbursts of applause, and most distractingly, the engineering is so sloppy that the sound occasionally flips back and forth between speakers. The voices, though, are miked at a high enough level that they are always clearly audible, so fans of Tebaldi, di Stefano, and Bastianini may be willing to overlook these shortcomings for the sake of the very fine performance. Tebaldi's Tosca is both limpid and impetuous, and her tone is radiant. The dark, penetrating quality of Bastianini's voice is genuinely malevolent. Di Stefano is resonant and thrillingly heroic, and the scene when he learns of Napoleon's victory is fiercely impassioned; from that point to the end of the second...
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Giacomo Puccini. New. New in new packaging. USA Orders only! Brand New product! please allow delivery times of 3-7 business days within the USA. US orders only please.
