Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: "Tonight I jump!" says Angela Brown, getting ready for the first stage rehearsal of "Tosca," which opens Saturday at the Benedum Center. Puccini's eponymous heroine is a plum role for an opera soprano. Tosca herself is a famed diva, who during the course of the opera must be passionate with her artist-lover Cavaradossi, watch him being tortured for his political affiliations, bargain for his life by promising to have sex with chief of police Scarpia, murder the villain to avoid having to keep the bargain and, at the end, jump off the battlement of Rome's Castel Sant'Angelo. It's the latter act, not the singing, that strikes terror into the hearts of those who would assay this formidable role. Vitorien Sardou's "La Tosca," the play that was the basis for the opera libretto, was written for the legendary actress Sarah Bernhardt.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
Preview: 'Tosca' singer aims to 'demystify opera for people'
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: "Tonight I jump!" says Angela Brown, getting ready for the first stage rehearsal of "Tosca," which opens Saturday at the Benedum Center. Puccini's eponymous heroine is a plum role for an opera soprano. Tosca herself is a famed diva, who during the course of the opera must be passionate with her artist-lover Cavaradossi, watch him being tortured for his political affiliations, bargain for his life by promising to have sex with chief of police Scarpia, murder the villain to avoid having to keep the bargain and, at the end, jump off the battlement of Rome's Castel Sant'Angelo. It's the latter act, not the singing, that strikes terror into the hearts of those who would assay this formidable role. Vitorien Sardou's "La Tosca," the play that was the basis for the opera libretto, was written for the legendary actress Sarah Bernhardt.
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