Puccini - Tosca - Vaness, Giacomini - Muti 1991,922CDs - DDD - 1.53'53
Philips 1993
Floria Tosca - Carol Vaness, Mario Cavaradossi - Giuseppe Giacomini, II barone Scarpia - Giorgio Zancanaro, Spoletta - Piero De Palma, Cesare Angelotti - Danilo Seraiocco, Sciarrone - Orazio Mori, Un carceriere - Charles Austin, II sagrestano - Alfredo Mariotti, Un pastore - Jeffrey Smith
Westminster Symphonie Choir, Philadelphia Boys Choir
Philadelphia Orchestra & Riccardo Muti
Soprano Carol Vaness is quite possibly the greatest interpretor of Puccini's feisty Roman diva in most recent times...But in this recording, conducted by Riccardo Muti and the Philadelphia Orchestra, Carol Vaness goes above and beyond and truly understands that Tosca is best sung with a combination of flesh-and-blood naturalism and gorgeous Puccini vocal lyricism. Her is, as already mentioned by reviewers and critics, a voice that is not huge or strong, especially when compared to the likes of such Tosca as Maria Callas, Renata Tebaldi, Birgit Nilsson, Leontyne Price, Montserrat Caballe, Ghena Dimitrova and Eva Marton. But she is flexible in her portrayal, and sharp, her voice spewing passions like javelins- romantic love, jealousy and suspicion in the first act, hatred, horror and murderous revenge in the second act and a kind of frenzied madness in the last. She is able to dramatize all the emotions associated with Tosca and she is perfect in all her lines --Amazon customer
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