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Andrea Andermann is a crazy man, we are twice told, admiringly, in supplemental materials for Naxos&#;s new four-DVD box set. 

Andermann is the veteran film producer who had the notion to assemble top-flight talent from the worlds of music and cinema for a generously funded film of Tosca. The action would unfold at the story&#;s specified locations (Sant&#;Andrea della Valle, Palazzo Farnese, Castel Sant&#;Angelo), and the film would be broadcast live to countries. After a lengthy period of planning and preparation for this risky undertaking, the live broadcast took place in three installments over a weekend in July , at the story&#;s designated times of day.

In a typical opera film, singers or actors mouth to a prerecorded soundtrack. A similar Tosca of (with the same Cavaradossi) had followed that game plan. Here, the singing was done live on the locations. The cast followed the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale RAI and conductor Zubin Mehta via loudspeakers and television m

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