Review: genuinely enthusiastic 
Sentiment: positive

Review: angela gheorghiu as famous prima donna floria tosca , roberto alagna as her lover mario cavaradossi , and ruggero as the villainous , lecherous police chief scarpia , all sing beautifully and act adequately . 
Sentiment: positive

Review: which presses familiar herzog tropes into the service of a limpid and conventional historical fiction , when really what we demand of the director 
Sentiment: negative

Review: both maintain and dismantle the facades that his genre and his character construct is a wonderous accomplishment of veracity and narrative grace 
Sentiment: positive


Review: run through its otherwise comic narrative .