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The story begins with Napoleon Bonaparte, political enemy of Scarpia advancing upon Rome. Cavaradossi a painter and Angelotti an escaped prisoner are political allies and see Napoleon as a hero. Angelotti has taken refuge in a chapel of a church in Rome in which Cavaradossi is painting a portrait of...

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Corporate Author:	Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.) (Performer)
Other Authors:	Illica, Luigi, 1857-1919 (Librettist), Giacosa, Giuseppe, 1847-1906 (Librettist), Behrens, Hildegard (Performer), Domingo, Plácido, 1941- (Performer), MacNeil, Cornell, 1922-2011 (Performer), Courtney, James, 1946- (Performer), Tajo, Italo (Performer), Laciura, Anthony (Performer), Christopher, Russell (Performer), Vernon, Richard, 1953-2006 (Performer), Fogarty, Melissa (Performer), Sinopoli, Giuseppe (Conductor), Browning, Kirk, 1921-2008 (Director), Levine, James, 1943-2021 (Musical director), Stivender, David (chorus master.), Bronson, Michael (executive producer.), Zeffirelli, Franco (Producer, Set designer), Hall, Peter J., 1926-2010 (Costume designer), Wechsler, Gil (Lighting designer), Saks, Jay David (audio director.), Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924, Sardou, Victorien, 1831-1908
Format:	Unknown
Language:	Italian English German French Spanish Chinese
Published:	Hamburg : Deutsche Grammophon, [2006]
Subjects:	Painters > Drama. Singers > Drama. Man-woman relationships > Drama. Naples (Kingdom) > History > 1735-1816 > Drama. Filmed performances. Opera films. Operas.