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- PEOPLE, Page 75The Best Seats in Town
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- By MICHAEL QUINN
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- Even for an art form that is extravagance set to music, it
- was grand opera: Puccini's Tosca, broadcast on Italian TV from
- the sites in Rome at the times of day specified in the score -- a
- 16th century church at noon, a palace that evening, a fortress
- on the Tiber the next morning. Artfully concealed microphones
- and receivers electronically linked tenor PLACIDO DOMINGO and
- American soprano CATHERINE MALFITANO with Zubin Mehta's
- orchestra across town. "It was amazing to be singing on these
- locations, looking out over Rome at St. Peter's and the
- Vatican," says Malfitano -- though the marathon left her feeling
- "like I had the worst case of jet lag." With U.S. audiences due
- to see the results on PBS in September, this Tosca has a happy
- ending.
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