catfuntI started recording backstage at the Puccini Festival when we were introduced to Annunziata (who plays Suzuki) paused it and resumed a day later at the church in Pietrasanta where Michael Guttman was rehearsing for a tango concert in the evening.
catfuntAn one of the many Puccini museums in Lucca they played the only known recording of Puccini speaking in an interview with a journalist. Typically most of the i/v is a lengthy question and lavish praise from the journalist at the start. Mrs Puccini also gets a few words in.
play0:00 / 4:08Music Director Francesco Corti tells us more about the music of Tosca and why it was a revolutionary opera. Extracts of Tosca courtesy of...
