Tosca (singer)
Tosca (* 29. August 1967 in Rome as Tiziana Tosca Donati ) is an Italian pop singer and theater actress .
Career
Tosca gained her first musical experience as a singer in a Roman bar, where she was finally discovered by Renzo Arbore . This helped her to appear on television until she finally entered the race at the 1992 Sanremo Festival in the newcomer category with the song Cosa farà Dio di me . Her self-titled debut album was then released. This was followed by the album Attrice in 1993 . She then recorded a series of duets, for example with Lucio Dalla , Riccardo Cocciante and Renato Zero , and presented the song Vorrei incontrarti fra cent'anni at the Sanremo Festival in 1996 alongside Ron . The duet won the festival.
After the Sanremo victory, Tosca released the album L'altra Tosca , which included the previous duets. After that, turned to the theater and sang the theme song of the film Jane Eyre by Franco Zeffirelli . In 1997 she returned to Sanremo with Nel respiro più grande and followed up with the album Incontri e passaggi , on which songs by u. a. Ennio Morricone , Chico Buarque or Ivano Fossati were included. For this she was awarded a Targa Tenco . In 1998 the singer was engaged in the musical Sette spose per sette fratelli (an adaptation of the film A Bride for Seven Brothers ).
Tosca then sang sacred music for the Vatican until 2001 when she presented a new musical with Salvatore Giuliano . In 2002 she appeared in the plays Wozzeck, Lulu, la morte e gli altri and Monologhi della vagina . In the following year she presented the Liedtheater Notte in bianco and played in a production of the Threepenny Opera . Her new album Sto bene al mondo was also released . After further theater and film roles and the album Romana , she returned to the Sanremo Festival in 2007 with Il terzo fuochista . In 2012 she recorded the album Trentino senza tempo with music from Trentino with the Albiano band , followed by the album Il suono della voce in 2014 and the concert recording of Appunti musicali dal mondo in 2017 .
Tosca reached sixth place at the 2020 Sanremo Festival with the song Ho amato tutto and was awarded the special prize for the best composition.
Discography
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Albums
- Tosca (1992)
- Attrice (1993)
- L'altra Tosca (1996)
- Incontri e passaggi (1997)
- Sto bene al mondo (2003)
- Romana (2006)
- Trentino senza tempo (2010)
- Il suono della voce (2014)
- Appunti musicali dal mondo (2017)
- Morabeza (2019)
Singles
- Carcere 'e mare (1989)
- Cosa farà Dio di me (1992)
- Vorrei incontrarti fra cent'anni (1996) - with Ron
- Jane Eyre (1996)
- Nel respiro più grande (1997)
- Il mio inizio sei tu (1997) - with Fiorello
- Tra cielo e terra (2006)
- Il terzo fuochista (2007)
- Priesencolinensinainciusol (2015)
- Il porto (A mesma musica) (2017)
- L'invenzione di un poeta (2018) - with Nicola Piovani
- Giuramento (2019)
- Normal dues (2019)
- Ho amato tutto (2020)
theatre
- Carro Fantastico (1992)
- Sette spose per sette fratelli - with Raffaele Paganini (1997/1998)
- Musica Caeli - with Musica per il Cielo Ensemble (2000)
- Salvatore Giuliano - with Giampiero Ingrassia, directed by Armando Pugliese (2001)
- Wozzeck, Lulu, la morte e gli altri - con Carla Fracci , directed by Beppe Menegatti (2002)
- I Monologhi della Vagina - Director: Emanuela Giordano (2002)
- Notte in Bianco - Director: Claudio Insegno (2003)
- L'opera da tre soldi - with Massimo Venturiello (2003-2005)
- Il tango delle ore piccole - with Massimo Venturiello (2004/2005)
- Semo o nun semo - by Nicola Piovani (2004/2005)
- Romana - directed by Massimo Venturiello (2005-2007)
- Gastone - Director: Massimo Venturiello (2006–2008)
- La strada - directed by Massimo Venturiello (2008/2009)
- Musicanti (Sonata a Cosimina) - with Massimo Venturiello, director: Massimo Venturiello (2009-2011)
- La Corona di Tombacco - by Marco Betta (2010)
- Il borghese gentiluomo - with Massimo Venturiello, director: Massimo Venturiello (2011-2013)
- Italiane - with Maddalena Crippa and Lina Sastri, directed by Emanuela Giordano (2011)
- Zoom spartito cinematografico - Music: Ruggiero Mascellino, Director: Massimo Venturiello (2011)
- Il grande dittatore - with Massimo Venturiello, directed by Massimo Venturiello (2015)
Filmography
- 2006: Baciami piccina - Director: Roberto Cimpanelli
Web links
- Official website
- Tosca at Rockol.it
- Tosca at Discogs (English)
supporting documents
- ↑ Tosca albums. In: Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien, accessed February 9, 2020 .
- ↑ Guido Racca: M&D Borsa Singoli 1960-2019 . Self-published, 2019, ISBN 978-1-09-326490-6 , pp. 370 .
- ↑ Songs by Tosca. In: Italiancharts.com. Hung Medien , accessed July 18, 2019 .
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SURNAME | Tosca |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Donati, Tiziana Tosca (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian pop singer and stage actress |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 29, 1967 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome |