Tosca's Kiss with Daniel Schmid: DVD Cover

    Tosca's Kiss
    a.k.a. Il Bacio di Tosca, Tosca's Kiss Director: Daniel Schmid

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    • DVD Release Date: 10/05/2004
    • Original Release: 1984
    • Rating: Not Rated
    • Sales Rank: 54,012

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    Features

    Scene selection; Interview with Daniel Schmid; Cast & crew; Stills; DVD-ROM containing extensive notes and biographies; Bonus audio tracks of original 1948 recordings by Sara Scuderi of arias by Puccini (Tosca, La Bohème) and Giordano (Andrea Chénier)

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    Scene Index

    Side #1 --
    1. Casa Verdi [3:47]
    2. Tosca's Kiss [2:09]
    3. Signs of Old Age [2:13]
    4. Sara Scuderi [3:15]
    5. Otello - Act IV, Scene 4 [1:43]
    6. Signora Lari [2:03]
    7. Everyday Life in Casa Riposa [4:43]
    8. Giuseppina Sani, Giulia Scaramelli [1:52]
    9. Sara Scuderi's Memories, Tosca - Act II [3:02]
    10. Sara Scuderi's Room [3:25]
    11. Nabucco - Chorus, Act III, Scene 4 [3:51]
    12. Anna Bolena - Act II, Scene 3 [2:07]
    13. Della Benning, Giuseppe Manacchini [2:59]
    14. Duet - Sara Scuderi & Leonida Bellon [3:18]
    15. Ida Bida [1:30]
    16. Malia [2:52]
    17. Signora Simionato, Giuseppe Manacchini [3:47]
    18. Music as a Universal Language - Paraphrase [4:09]
    19. 'O Sole Mio - Rigoletto [4:40]
    20. Visit From Sara Scuderi - Dress Rehearsal [6:42]
    21. Giovanni Erminio Puligheddu [10:20]
    22. Tosca - Act II Close [2:50]
    23. Thaïs - Cesare Perugia [2:15]
    24. Credits [3:52]

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    Editorial Reviews

    Before he died in 1902, Giuseppe Verdi inaugurated a home for retired artists in Milan, a project he had worked on for some time. This home is maintained by the Friends of the Casa Verdi, after Verdi's royalties that supported the home ran out in the 1960s. Director Daniel Schmid interviews several of the operatic stars living there in 1984: Sara Scuderi, Giuseppe Manachini, Leonida Bellon, and the composer and conductor Puligheddu. The singers reminisce about their past and display an independent, extroverted spirit that does not need rehearsing to come alive. Both Verdi fans and opera aficionados will especially enjoy this "off-stage" look at a group of performers in retirement. Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

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    May 19, 2003: It's not my cup of tea to visit ''retirement homes'' - I've done too much of that in my life, with depressing results. But this is something different. The people here were, in their prime, major musicians, mostly opera singers. Their theatricality and their joy of living far outweighs the ravages of time on their voices and bodies, and the film is an inspiring and delightful trip through their memories of the last 70 years or so of Italian opera. It takes only the slightest interest in opera to fall in love with these folks. They were - and are - great. The dry humor and the affectionate but objective direction will not grow stale on repeated viewing, and you will watch this more than once. I've had this tape for many years, and my only complaint is that this film is not on DVD

    This review was written about the VHS edition.