Eugenio Giraldoni News
Italian opera singer
Commemorations 2024 (Death: Eugenio Giraldoni)
- baritone
- Kingdom of Italy
- singer, opera singer, musician
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The history behind: 17 June 1800 - Puccini's Tosca and Sardou's La Tosca
[…] Puccini started with librettist Luigi Illica, but Illica was not keen and Sardou disliked Puccini's music! Ricordi eventually transferred the opera to Alberto Franchetti, who started work on it but somehow the project got transferred back to Puccini. There is a suggestion that Franchetti was never at ease with the subject matter. But however it happened, Puccini resumed work in 1895 and the opera premiered in 1900 in Rome with Hariclea Darclée, Emilio De Marchi, and Eugenio Giraldoni, conducted by Leopoldo Mugnone. Ricordi had arranged to premiere the work in Rome, rather than at La Scala, Milan, because of the opera's very specific Roman setting. Sardou sets La Tosca at a very specific period of time and place, the afternoon, evening, and early morning of 17 and 18 June 1800 in Rome. A French army under Napoleon invaded Italy in 1796. At the time, much of Northern Italy was held by the […]
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