Tosca opera review9/7/2023 ![]() ![]() Wouldn’t that have been something to hear? Alas, the two friends never got around to it. ![]() Here are a couple more: Miles Davis once told me that he yearned to record an interpretation of “Tosca” with the great arranger Gil Evans. James Conlon told a few of them Saturday night in his pre-performance talk before Los Angeles Opera revived its 2013 production, and he had some of his listeners rolling in the aisles. The pain and confusion is all there the place of peace, quiet and open air still in need of evocation.There are many, many interesting anecdotes circulating about Puccini’s “Tosca” - which figures since “Tosca” is among the most performed operas in the business. That’s a legitimate approach, but what is less clear in her singing is possibility you will have heard Toscas who are more dedicated to aspiration, who reach further for hope in the soaring Puccini notes of what could be, the potential rewards that drive the courageous as they fight off oppression. In the piece, Tosca’s journey starts with misplaced worries about her lover’s fidelity, only for her to realize that her main problems lie abroad in political matters artists, she learns to her cost, cannot escape their surroundings. It’s quite magnificent, in a very contemporary, tolerant and openhearted sense of that word.īradley’s vocal emphasis in the famed title role is on that character’s agonized response to the ascending chaos around her. He’s figured out that his painter, Mario, is as uninterested in power as anyone playing him thus should be in the bravura he’s an idealistic seeker and that is how he sings. Thomas is an accessible tenor, a singer with a humanistic quality, a performer who attaches kindness to every note. Here, they both are artists who, even though they have their struggles and jealousies as we all do, want nothing so much as to seek out beauty. At its core, “Tosca” (like “West Side Story”) is a portrait of two lovers unable to find their place, done in by the battles that surround them, and used to further the agenda of others. ![]()
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