Glen Ward Sings Recondita Armonia || Favorite Tenor Arias || Puccini || Tosca ||

Glen Ward Sings Recondita Armonia || Favorite Tenor Arias || Puccini || Tosca ||
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Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on January 14, 1900. The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1887 French-language dramatic play, La Tosca, is a melodramatic piece set in Rome in June 1800, with the Kingdom of Naples' control of Rome threatened by Napoleon's invasion of Italy. It contains depictions of torture, murder, and suicide, as well as some of Puccini's best-known lyrical arias.

Puccini saw Sardou's play when it was touring Italy in 1889 and, after some vacillation, obtained the rights to turn the work into an opera in 1895. Turning the wordy French play into a succinct Italian opera took four years, during which time the composer repeatedly argued with his librettists and publisher. Tosca premiered at a time of unrest in Rome, and its first performance was delayed for a day for fear of disturbances. Despite indifferent reviews from the critics, the opera was an immediate success with the public.

Musically, Tosca is structured as a through-composed work, with arias, recitative, choruses, and other elements musically woven into a seamless whole. Puccini used Wagnerian leitmotifs to identify characters, objects, and ideas. While critics have often dismissed the opera as a facile melodrama with a confusing plot—musicologist Joseph Kerman famously called it a "shabby little shocker"—the power of its score and the inventiveness of its orchestration have been widely acknowledged. The dramatic force of Tosca and its characters continues to fascinate both performers and audiences, and the work remains one of the most frequently performed operas. Many recordings of the work have been issued, both studio and live performances.

The tenor aria "Recondita Armonia" is one of the highlights of the opera. Since the aria is performed early in the first act, Puccini was able to punish latecomers to the opera house. The tenor role of Cavaradossi is written for a spinto tenor(vocal weight between lyric and dramatic), a voice of powerful, dramatic quality with a metallic brilliance in the high notes.

In the opera, Mario Cavaradossi portrays a painter, and as he paints a portrait of Mary Magdalene, he begins to compare Mary's features to Flora's, the woman he loves.

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The audio portion of this video is a studio recording I made in Vancouver, Canada. The orchestral track used during recording is licensed by KBS Media.




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