180G Audiophile PUCCINI / TOSCA / TEBALDI & DEL MONACO

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Puccini / Tosca / Tebaldi & Del Monaco (2 LP Box) Out of Print! This is a SUPER RARE Factory Sealed Super Analogue 180 gram 2 LP Box Set that comes complete with the coveted OBI strip! The strip and cover are in EXCELLENT condition. It contains a performance of Puccini's Tosca, featuring vocal soloists Tebaldi and Del Monaco. This box set contains Super Analogue LPs # 29101 and 29102. Many of the operas that were remastered by Superanalogue are quite good. They tend to avoid the harsh vocals that are sometimes found on the London originals, and are usually quite transparent. The quiet RTI 180 gram vinyl doesn't hurt either. Wikipedia History Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Victorien Sardou's drama, La Tosca. The work premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on January 14, 1900. The original play by Victorien Sardou was produced in Paris in 1887 and seen by Puccini in Milan, in 1887, with Sarah Bernhardt as Tosca. Puccini immediately asked his editor Giulio Ricordi to buy Sardou's rights, but these were finally bought only in 1893 to be given to Alberto Franchetti, another composer. Illica wrote his libretto, and in October 1894, Franchetti, Ricordi, Illica and Giuseppe Verdi met Sardou to present him the libretto. Verdi was particularly fascinated by this tragedy, but he refused to compose music for it unless Sardou could come up with another ending. After a few months Franchetti finally admitted he was not able to compose music for the work, so Giulio Ricordi asked Puccini to do it. Puccini was still offended and only Verdi's intercession convinced him to accept. He started working on it in 1896, after the completion of La Bohème; Ricordi set Giuseppe Giacosa to work with Luigi Illica for the libretto, but Giacosa did not perform up to his own standards, and had several personal disputes with Sardou. Puccini too had disputes with Illica, Giacosa and Ricordi together. They had proposed a triumphal "Latin hymn" for Act III, but Puccini finally convinced them to reduce it to only the eighteen measures of Trionfal... di nuova speme. In October 1899, after three years of difficult cooperation, the opera was ready. Tosca begins on an imposing, quasi-tragic note, much darker than the opening pages of Puccini's earlier operas. However, the composer takes care to introduce the Sacristan, a basso buffo, for comic relief. Puccini was always very careful to include well-defined minor characters. The Sacristan's banter with Mario gradually leads to the aria Recondita armonia. This piece requires vocal intensity and extension, together with depth of interpretation from the tenor, and is enriched by the Sacristan's countermelody. This is a factory sealed record, long out of print. This record cannot be guaranteed against defects of any kind once opened. This item is only sold "as is". My name is Tom Port. I also sell on Ebay under the name Humorem (2411 feedback rating, a member since 1998). I have been selling audiophile LPs and CDs for twenty years. I started another "company" on Ebay called dccblowout because in 2002 I bought the remaining stock of DCC Compact Classics, the audiophile label that filed Chapter 11 in that year. Please visit our Ebay store for all your audiophile needs. We also have a website under the name better dash records w we sell the best sounding analog recordings in the world. If you are looking for the ultimate in audiophile sound, please take a moment to check out our site. CHECK IT OUT NOW, VERY NICE! Click to read all about how Better Records finds the best sounding records ever made! The free listing tool. List your items fast and easy and manage your active items. read more

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