Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.
Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.
Tosca’s Kiss
Sunday, October 18, 7:00 PM
Tickets
Exhibition-related films are free with museum admission.
Director: Daniel Schmid
(1984, 87 minutes)
Meet the residents of the “Casa di Riposo” in Milan, the world’s first nursing home for retired opera singers, founded by composer Giuseppe Verdi in 1896. A touching and often hilarious film on the subject of aging and the enduring power of music, Tosca’s Kiss captures a world in which these singers relive and reenact their triumphant roles of the glorious past.
* The exhibition Verdi: Creating Otello and Falstaff—Highlights from the Ricordi Archive will be open for program attendees.
