Famous Spanish tenor Plácido Domingo sings “E lucevan le stelle”, a romantic aria from the third act of Giacomo Puccini’s opera Tosca, composed in 1900 to an Italian libretto by the Italian librettists Luigi Illica (9 May 1857 – 16 December 1919) and Giuseppe Giacosa (21 October 1847 – 1 September 1906). This is from […]
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Maria Callas sings Vissi d’arte (Tosca)
Maria Callas sings “Vissi d’arte” (English: “I lived for art”), a soprano aria from act 2 of the opera Tosca by the Italian composer Giacomo Puccini. At the Royal Opera House (Covent Garden), London, 1964.
Pavarotti at Hyde Park (1991)
On July 30, 1991, Luciano Pavarotti has given a free concert in London’s Hyde Park to celebrate his 30 years in opera. A crowd more than 100,000 stood in the rain to watch and listen Luciano.
