Callas made her final stage appearance as Puccini's Tosca, in 1965.
In May, Tosca revealed a stake in Phoenix, a Hartford-based insurance concern.
After World War II she concentrated on singing, landing lead parts in Tosca and Ariadne auf Naxos with the New York City Opera.
When opera lovers start thinking about vital recordings, one in particular is almost always mentioned: EMI's 1953 "Tosca, " with Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano and Tito Gobbi in the leading roles and Victor de Sabata conducting.
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Puccini's opera is based on Victorien Sardou's play "La Tosca, " which was written for the actress Sarah Bernhardt in the late 19th century.
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Puccini's "Tosca" was the first of 16 Italian operas that Ms. Callas, then in her prime, made under the guidance of the great English record producer Walter Legge.
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When Luc Bondy's semitransgressive "Tosca, " which opened the Met's 2009 season to critical brickbats, returned in the spring of 2010 with new and excellent principals, it looked like a different show.
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And while the opera's ending is, of course, never in doubt, I still find myself thinking that maybe this time Cavaradossi and Tosca will escape the clutches of Scarpia's henchmen, so vital is the spirit that Ms. Callas and Mr. di Stefano bring to their roles.
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Domingo has also made more than fifty music videos in addition to four feature films of operas: Carmen, La Traviata, Otello and Tosca, with the Mantua Rigoletto forthcoming.
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The franchise has been notorious in recent years for hiring first-time managers at the major league level (Carlos Tosca, John Gibbons, Tim Johnson, Buck Martinez and John Farrell) and the results have been disappointing.
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