Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) ~ Tosca

Opera in tre atti
Libretto: Giuseppe Giacosa & Luigi Illica

Floria Tosca
Mario Cavaradossi
Scarpia
Cesare Angelotti
Il sagrestano
Spoletta
Sciarrone
Un carceriere
Un pastore

Magda Olivero
Luciano Pavarotti
Cornell MacNeil
John Cheek
Italo Tajo
Andrea Velis
Russell Christopher
Philip Booth
Scott Rigby

Orchestra and Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, New York

Dallas, May 11, 1979

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Booklet written by Andrew Palmer

Additional information
The reality is indeed astonishing, for on stage in one of the best-known operas in the repertoire Magda Olivero is regarded as one of the great operatic performers of the twentieth century. Olivero?s debut at the Metropolitan Opera took place to a packed house on 3rd April 1975. At the end of the third act, her leap over the parapet brought gasps from the audience, witch ended with curtain calls lasting half an hour (the longest ovation in the history of the theatre).