Puccini extreme: Dudamel's gloriously pessimistic 'Tosca' an indictment on the appeal of fascism
"Tosca" is Puccini extreme, the composer's most political opera. At its center is his most fiery heroine, Tosca, the diva who attempts to live for art under tyranny in Rome during Napoleonic times. Â Cavaradossi, the painter and revolutionary, is his most heroic tenor role. The lecherous tyrant...