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- ↑ Recordings of Tosca on operadis-opera-discography.org.uk
- ↑ This recording has been described as the best selling opera of all time. Opera: An Encyclopedia of World Premieres and Significant Performances, Singers, Composers, Librettists, Arias and Conductors, 1597–2000, Franklin Mesa (2007), p. 85: "His 1952 performance on EMI of Tosca with Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano and Tito Gobbi remains the best-selling opera recording of all time."
- ↑ Tosca, December 19, 1978, Met Opera on Demand
- ↑ Tosca (1984) at IMDb
- ↑ Tosca, March 27, 1985, Met Opera on Demand.
- ↑ ASIN B00CSVD1A0.
- ↑ ASIN B074T239HD.
- ↑ Tosca, October 10, 2009, Met Opera on Demand.
- ↑ Richard Fairman, "EMI issues the BBC-broadcast Tosca by Jonathan Kent", Gramophone, January 2013, pp. 80–81: "On balance, this new DVD is as involving at every level as any."
- ↑ Tosca, November 9, 2013, Met Opera on Demand.
- ↑ Neil Fisher, Tosca, 2017 Baden-Baden Easter Festival, Gramophone, January 2018, pp. 89, 91: "[This is] Simon Rattle’s second foray into Puccini. ... the result, although decently captured on DVD/Blu‑ray, is oddly flavourless."
- ↑ Tosca, January 27, 2018, Met Opera on Demand.
- ↑ Mark Pullinger, Tosca, 2018 Salzburg Easter Festival, Gramophone, May 2019, p. 95: "... this is Puccini's Tosca as a thriller ... And for the most part it works very well, leading to a denouement which is, well, thrilling."
- ↑ Vienna State Opera, 2019. Blu-ray, 2021, OCLC 1287594802: "Piotr Beczala celebrated his acclaimed role debut as Cavaradossi".
- ↑ Mark Pullinger, "Puccini's Tosca", Gramophone, August 2022, pp. 100–105: "Alas, it’s a bit of a routine performance under Marco Armiliato, although Piotr Beczała sings gorgeously as Cavaradossi and – yes – is granted an encore of ‘E lucevan le stelle’."
- 1 2 Neil Fisher, "Two Toscas, two very different shows – and two valuable records of projects giving Puccini a spring clean.", Gramophone, July 2023, pp. 83–84.
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