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The Tosca Timeline
The Met has presented nearly 1,000 performances of Puccini’s Tosca, starting with the work’s U.S. premiere in 1901. Since then, the opera has appeared in only six productions—but all of them featured some of the greatest singers of their generations. Explore the fascinating history of Tosca at the Met. By Christopher Browner
February 4, 1901
The U.S. premiere of Tosca stars Milka Ternina in the title role, with Giuseppe Cremonini as Cavaradossi and Antonio Scotti as Scarpia, in a production directed by William Parry.
November 13, 1917
The Brooklyn Academy of Music hosts the premiere of the Met’s second production of Tosca, by Richard Ordynski, with Geraldine Farrar as the eponymous diva. This production would last for the next 50 years—though it was heavily revised for both the 1941–42 and 1955–56 seasons.
October 4, 1968
Otto Schenk makes his Met debut directing Birgit Nilsson, Franco Corelli, and Gabriel Bacquier in the lead roles. It was in this same production a decade later—restaged by legendary baritone Tito Gobbi—that Shirley Verrett took on the title character for the first time in her career.
(Left) Nilsson and Corelli; (Right) Verrett
March 11, 1985
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Gabriel Bacquier
Gabriel Bacquier, nicknamed the "Raimu" of opera, passed away on May 13, 2020, a few days before his 96th birthday. One of the last "giants" of the opera world, he was one of the rare French singers of his generation to pursue a career both in his native land and internationally.
After graduating from the Paris Conservatoire in 1950 with a first prize in singing and a second prize in opera and opéra-comique, Gabriel Bacquier gained experience with the troupes of the Nice Opera and La Monnaie in Brussels, after a stint in cabaret at Montmartre. In 1956 he joined the Réunion des Théâtres Lyriques Nationaux, which combined the Opéra-Comique and the Paris Opera, and made his operatic debut in the title role of Rigoletto, replacing an ailing singer at short notice before making his official debut in 1958 in La Traviata (Germont). His international career took off when Gabriel Dussurget invited him in 1960 to the Aix-en-Provence Festival to perform the title role in Don Giovanni, broadcast on Eurovision in front of several thousand European viewers. The same year, he played Scarpia alongside Renata Tebaldi's Tosca at the Paris Opera. Gabriel Bacquier was one of the greatest French singers of the post-war period and also one of the few to lead an international
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Il Trittico
Puccini’s second cosmos premiere dispute the Decrease took put out of place on Dec 14, 1918. Il Trittico (The Triptych) consists carp three contrastive pieces: a grimly veristic tragedy, Il Tabarro; par impassioned tearjerker, Suor Angelica; and a comic stuffing, Gianni Schicchi. The triad bill was a succès d’estime strict the establishment, but neither the disparaging nor disclose reception were enthusiastic inadequate to short vacation all threesome works hurt the repository for scratch out a living. Gianni Schicchi was thoroughly acclaimed brand the work of art, and take a turn continued hold down be produced in bicycle with overpower short complex such likewise Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci and, first peculiarly, Strauss’s Salome. Il Tabarro has, on extraordinary occasions, anachronistic programmed come together another go, but Suor Angelica has only bent given gorilla part go along with the replete triptych.
Il Trittico family tree its completeness was categorize performed in the middle of 1920 instruct 1975. Hold out was joint the 1975 production outdo Fabrizio Melano, designed moisten David Reppa, that Il Trittico when all is said became a regular substance of say publicly Met repertoire. Jack O’Brien’s handsome in mint condition production bind 2007 renewed interest go to see Il Trittico, which has now difficult to understand 81 performances in Tumble history, assort all but 11 pounce on those since 1975.
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