[Met Performance] CID:35080



Tosca
Metropolitan Opera House, Wed, February 22, 1905




Tosca (27)
Giacomo Puccini | Luigi Illica/Giuseppe Giacosa
Tosca
Emma Eames

Cavaradossi
Enrico Caruso

Scarpia
Antonio Scotti

Sacristan
Arcangelo Rossi

Spoletta
Jacques Bars

Angelotti
Eugène Dufriche

Sciarrone
Bernard Bégué

Shepherd
Josephine Jacoby

Jailer
Victor Baillard


Conductor
Arturo Vigna







Review 1:

Review in The New York Times

In the evening "Tosca" was sung, also to a large audience, with Mme. Eames, Mr. Caruso, and Mr. Scotti in the principal parts. They were all in excellent voice and appeared at their best. Mme. Eames's representation of the heroine is beyond anything else she has ever done in dramatic power and intensity, both in singing and in acting. So much cannot be said of Mr. Caruso's Cavaradossi. He does some beautiful singing in the first act. which does not get the recognition given to his impassioned and usually twice-repeated solo in the last act; but there is a deplorable lack of characterization in his acting of the scene with Tosca in the church. The solo in the last act was vociferously applauded and a certain portion of the audience was bent on requiring its repetition, although Mr. Caruso declined to repeat it. The uproar of handclapping and cries of "bis" mingled with hisses interfered with the progress of the opera for some moments after Mme. Eames had reappeared upon the stage and had begun with the duet that follows.

Mr. Scotti as Scarpia gives one of his most characteristic impersonations. Mr. Vigna conducted with great dramatic forcefulness and produced a bigger climax in the grand processional scene at the close of the first act than he has succeeded in producing before. The whole representation had uncommon life and energy.



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