While critics have often dismissed the opera as a facile melodrama with confusions of plot-musicologist Joseph Kerman famously called it a "shabby little shocker" -the power of its score and the inventiveness of its orchestration have been widely acknowledged.
Puccini used Wagnerian leitmotifs to identify characters, objects and ideas. Musically, Tosca is structured as a through-composed work, with arias, recitative, choruses and other elements musically woven into a seamless whole. Despite indifferent reviews from the critics, the opera was an immediate success with the public. Tosca premiered at a time of unrest in Rome, and its first performance was delayed for a day for fear of disturbances. Turning the wordy French play into a succinct Italian opera took four years, during which the composer repeatedly argued with his librettists and publisher. Puccini saw Sardou's play when it was touring Italy in 1889 and, after some vacillation, obtained the rights to turn the work into an opera in 1895. It contains depictions of torture, murder, and suicide, as well as some of Puccini's best-known lyrical arias. The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1887 French-language dramatic play, La Tosca, is a melodramatic piece set in Rome in June 1800, with the Kingdom of Naples's control of Rome threatened by Napoleon's invasion of Italy. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. Live at the Village Vanguard Vol.Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.Paul Motian and the Electric Bebop Band (1992).It Should've Happened a Long Time Ago (1984)."Homage to Puccini" (Masabumi Kikuchi) - 7:00.The interplay is sharp while the images are abstract, and there is solid evidence that while they only meet intermittently, Kikuchi, Peacock and Motian share a clear collective vision." Track listing Īll compositions by Masabumi Kikuchi, Paul Motian and Gary Peacock after Giacomo Puccini except as indicated John Kelman wrote on AllAboutJazz, " Experiencing Tosca may be the most successful Tethered Moon project. The PopMatters review stated, "Very good in excessively separated parts." Besides, a certain amount of self-indulgence is to be expected in avant-garde jazz, and Tethered Moon deserves credit for providing an album that is tasteful as well as intriguing."
At times, Experiencing Tosca can be overly self-indulgent, but not in a way that is disrespectful of Puccini's contributions. Reception Professional ratings Review scoresĪllmusic awarded the album 3 stars, stating, "The very idea that Tethered Moon's members could put a new spin on Tosca no less than 102 years after Puccini wrote it speaks well of their interpretive powers.
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