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"Tosca” is a very popular opera by the great Italian composer Giacomo Puccini in which love, murder and political intrigue play an important role. This melodrama has always fascinated its spectators because it is in a way a detective story in music with a striking ending. As it was expected the edition directed by Franco Ripa di Meana that has just been presented has turned out to be a success. The Tosca staged at the exciting thermal baths of the Roman emperor Caracalla has offered skillful interpretations, in spite of the well known acoustic difficulties that come with the enchanting scenery provided by the ancient ruins of Rome. A great part of the criticiam of the public, so difficult to please, has been in favor of this Tosca that has given a great attention to scenography. Particularly surprising the unusual suicide of the protagonist, Tosca, with an almost biblical Tiber river covered with blood that reminds of the Pharaoh punishment threatened by Moses carried out by God.
Tosca deals with a period of Italian history during which the popes were real head of states and were in control of a good part of the Italian peninsula and it was almost impossible for the “State of the Church” not to be open to criticism. The spectators have applauded with enthusiasm the components of the prestigious cast that included Micaela Carosi in the role of Tosca, Giorgio Surian and Fabio Armiliato, the most important Italian leading tenor of his generation, who has performed in the most prestigious opera houses and has celebrated twenty years of his bright careers as an opera singer. Armiliato has declared that in this long period that he has spent as an interpreter of the most important male protagonist of Tosca he has had the opportunity to go deep into the personality of Cavaradossi discovering with the passing of time new and exciting aspects and shades of this beautiful melodrama. The negative criticism of this edition has been directed only to the unusual interpretation by the director Franco Ripa di Meana who has not disregarded the anticlerical nature of the opera. It should be considered that Giacomo Puccini was from the “red belt” of Italy and had no sympathy for the church, consequently, it is evident that this new controversial edition has been staged with a total respect of its originary nature.
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