Tosca

A nice try here, but no cigar. Éva Marton is too icy and unfocused, José Carreras too weak, and Juan Pons a toneless disaster. Best of the lot is Michael Tilson Thomas, who conducts this Tosca suavely but a little too dispassionately for this mighty melodrama. Stick with the classic Leontyne Price-Giuseppe di Stefano-Herbert von Karajan version, still available on London. C-