An inexorable drama

A very attractive decidedly recording Doeuvre Chief Puccini. Little known in France, Leinsdorf maestro who has never been a big media star, leads the orchestra and choirs of Rome lopera and all his people with great firmness and shows once again what a fantastic theater manager he was. Unfortunately a species endangered today! He always knows the action theatrical favor because it makes us fully experience the vicissitudes of the drama that is irretrievably played before our eyes. Sometimes a small culpable as the beginning of the 3rd act venial fault but it's so lon judge the overall result. Formed in school Toscanini and it feels it has decidedly maestro had the privilege of working for thirty years with all the greatest singers like lattestent numerous Wagnerian evenings Verdean and other MET-war davant not to mention all his other achievements post-World War. In their presence, he could always give "meaning" and bring out the "truth" of each character. In addition, it wasnt ever, as some stars of the console that I will not name, in direct competition with artists that he ran These discs are a living testimony all the more quon includes three unavoidable stars of the post-World War Met. Zinka Milanov, illustrates diva and velvet voice, wonderful and beautiful incarnation of Floria Tosca, a role that requires a great actress, a sublime voice, exquisite and immensely sensual woman, all qualities which embodies parfaitementJussi Björling, the great Swedish tenor who is no longer at present but still captivates us once the warmth of her voice, her musicianship flawless, the accuracy of intonation and emotion specious that it manages to convey us. Listen to its "e lucevan le stelle", a true act of love. We weep. Leonard Warren finally. Undoubtedly a great artist but also the small "downside" I would put to comment on this disc. Her voice is beautiful and that is the problem. For it must be for the role of Scarpia a black voice and dark at once, in some passages able to forget all his vibrato and his "bel canto" and even BE ugly. A voice that emphasizes all the vice and wickedness of the officer, his sardonic, diabolical character. A kind of Iago in short. But Warren never convinces us of all the vileness of his Scarpia. His voice is a little too good to linstar dun Aldo Protti while it is a Gobbi, a Taddei Bastianini or that it would have been necessary. Fernando Corena camped once more stereotyped sacristan who borrows too obviously his way to 'lopera buffa ". It is a forced and boring can often questionable. Fortunately it does not last too long ... Nothing more to say about the other comprimari that are pretty well distributed. In summary, therefore, an indispensable Tosca for the management Leinsdorf, sensuality Milanov and heat Bjorling! A word to salvation!