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Orchestra pit camera of Herbert von Karajan conducting the entire opera of Puccini's Tosca, in March 1989.
This is with the Berlin Philharmonic, and would be his last opera concert at the Salzburg Easter Festival.
Concert details: discoverkaraja...
Act 1: 1:48
Act 2: 50:40
Act 3: 1:36:59
Karajan is evidently quite frail but in full command of the orchestra and it's fascinating to watch him conduct a whole opera from the orchestra pit
Cast (copied from concert details link above):
Alain Fondary
Scarpia
Zurich Boys' Choir
choir
Piero de Palma
Spoletta
Gottfried Hornik
Cesare Angelotti
Walter Zeh
Closer
Tammy Hensrud
Shepherd
Luciano Pavarotti
Mario Cavaradossi
Josephine Barstow
Floria Tosca
Wolfgang Scheider
Sciaronne