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Original

The Metropolitan Opera Presents. Giacomo Puccini's Tosca. Giacomo Puccini.

Translation

The Metropolitan Opera Presents. Giacomo Puccini's Tosca. Giacomo Puccini.

Original

The Metropolitan Opera Presents. Giacomo Puccini's Tosca. Libretto, Background, and Photos. Composed by Giacomo Puccini. 1858-1924. Amadeus. Softcover. 160 pages. Published by Amadeus Press. HL.120796. ISBN 1574674439. 6x9 inches. An idealistic artist, a celebrated opera singer, and a corrupt police chief engage in a fierce battle of wills in this tempestuous tale of passion, intrigue, cruelty, and deception. Puccini's great melodrama may be set in 1800, amid the Napoleonic wars, but the conflicts between love and loyalty, the state and the individual, and hypocrisy and principle are anything but dated. Floria Tosca, the beautiful, glamorous singer who has all Rome at her feet, is one of the iconic soprano roles in the Italian repertoire. She's caught between two men-her lover, the handsome painter Cavaradossi, who defies the law to hide a rebel friend. and the villainous Baron Scarpia, Rome's all-powerful chief of police, who will stop at nothing to crush the rebels and conquer Tosca for himself. This gripping story of torture, attempted rape, murder, suicide, and general mayhem is as thrilling and dramatic as anything seen on the operatic stage.

Translation

The Metropolitan Opera Presents. Giacomo Puccini's Tosca. Libretto, Background, and Photos. Composed by Giacomo Puccini. 1858-1924. Amadeus. Softcover. 160 pages. Published by Amadeus Press. HL.120796. ISBN 1574674439. 6x9 inches. An idealistic artist, a celebrated opera singer, and a corrupt police chief engage in a fierce battle of wills in this tempestuous tale of passion, intrigue, cruelty, and deception. Puccini's great melodrama may be set in 1800, amid the Napoleonic wars, but the conflicts between love and loyalty, the state and the individual, and hypocrisy and principle are anything but dated. Floria Tosca, the beautiful, glamorous singer who has all Rome at her feet, is one of the iconic soprano roles in the Italian repertoire. She's caught between two men-her lover, the handsome painter Cavaradossi, who defies the law to hide a rebel friend. and the villainous Baron Scarpia, Rome's all-powerful chief of police, who will stop at nothing to crush the rebels and conquer Tosca for himself. This gripping story of torture, attempted rape, murder, suicide, and general mayhem is as thrilling and dramatic as anything seen on the operatic stage.