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By Cammarano, Salvatore, 1801-1852 Andelot, FranÃœois de Coligny-Châtillon, 1521-1569 Gruberova, Edita, 1946- Schagidullin, Albert Piland, Jeanne, 1945- Aronica, Roberto, 1969- Franz, Manolito Mario Humes, Steven Borchev, Nikolay Klama, Johannes Haider, Friedrich, 1961- Murauer, Herbert Traub, Reinhard Large, Brian Bayerische Staatsoper MÃónchen Unitel Film- und Fernsep2006., Deutsche Grammophon Call No: DVD Opera Donizetti-Roberto-2006 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Gruberova is in her element in this sensitively modernised Christoph Loy production from the Bavarian State Opera (2005), particularly as the Virgin Queen becomes demented with grief and guilt at her condemnation of Roberto in the blistering mad-scene which closes the opera.
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By Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924 De Bosio, Gianfranco Giacosa, Giuseppe, 1847-1906 Illica, Luigi, 1857-1919 Sardou, Victorien, 1831-1908 Kabaivanska, Raina, 1934- Domingo, Plácido, 1941- Milnes, Sherrill Luccardi, Giancarlo Ferrara, Mario Mariotti, Alfredo Grella, Bruno Medici, Domenico Domingo, Placido, 1965- Bartoletti, Bruno Ambrosian Singers New Philharmonia Orchestp2005., Deutsche Grammophon Call No: DVD Opera Puccini-Tosca-2011 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Floria Tosca and Mario Cavaradossi are in love and all they want is to be left alone. Baron Scarpia, however, wants Floria for his physical needs. He arrests Mario for aiding a fugitive and tells Tosca that she can save her lover by giving herself to him. She agrees, and he promises to set up a false execution of Mario. But Floria won't be had so easily and the kiss he has so longed for turns out to be the fatal kiss of a knife blade. But the treachery of Scarpia is revealed as the execution goes ahead and Mario is killed. Tosca vows to meet Scarpia before God as she leaps over the side of the building to her death.