Puccini’s Tosca was recorded for video last year at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in a production by Massimo Popolizio. It’s set in the 1930s but other than sets and costumes appropriate to that period it’s played dead straight. Although there’s some kind of mafia/fascisti vibe it’s not really explored and one really experiences it as a “traditional” Tosca. The 30s aesthetic though certainly suits Vanessa Goikoetxea who comes over as very glamorous.
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