24 Apr 2006
Deborah Voigt as Tosca
http://www.operatoday.com/content/2006/04/deborah_voigt_a.php
http://www.operatoday.com/content/2006/04/deborah_voigt_a.php
Tosca "is based on a play by Sardou, which was written for the famous actress Sarah Bernhardt. Sardou crafted melodrama rather well, and Puccini’s librettists distilled the play’s main attributes of action, sex, love, lust, politics, art and religion into one of the most popular operas of the verismo style." Tosca is now playing at the Met with Deborah Voigt in the title role. Here are two reviews.