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- From: coren@speed.osf.org (Robert Coren)
- Subject: Re: The Roman "Tosca"
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.233827.8918@osf.org>
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- Organization: Open Software Foundation
- References: <1993Jan19.130256.24832@lloyd.Camex.COM>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:38:27 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan19.130256.24832@lloyd.Camex.COM>, chrisi@lloyd.Camex.COM (Chris Ischay) writes:
- > Our PBS station in Boston recently showed a production (?) of Tosca done in
- > Rome last summer. According to the commentary preceding the opera, Zubin
- > Mehta was conducting an orchestra in one place while the singers were
- > singing in another. The point of it all was to have the singers in the
- > actual locations at the actual time as given in the libretto. So we have
- > an execution at Castel Sant'Angelo in the early morning, and so on.
-
- Were any of the same folks involved with this, production-wise, as
- with the movie of _Carmen_ from a few of years ago with Domingo and
- Miguenes-Johnson? It used similar techniques, and I thought it worked
- pretty well, for the most part.
-