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Tosca, SC 69 (Puccini, Giacomo) Movements/Sections. 3 acts. Composition Year. 1895-99. Genre Categories. Operas; Theatrical Works; For voices, mixed chorus, orchestra; Related Works. Pieces based on Tosca.
- Puccini, Giacomo
- S.69
- 紅伶血; ทอสกา
- Tosca
Tosca, Puccini’s fifth opera, took shape following more than ten years gestation, moments of inspiration and other of reappraisal, and finally found expression with the power of his artistic and dramaturgical innovations. This was an opera in which Puccini was very daring, from the choice of a drama of such
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Tosca is one of the most lethal of operas. None of the central characters make it to the end alive, hero or villain. Unsurprisingly then, it's a thrilling melodrama often dismissed as one-dimensional and tawdry. Youd be foolish to go in with this attitude however, Puccini takes an overtly theatrical tale and makes it astonishingly moving.
Productions of Tosca can go a variety of ways though predominantly it remains an opera that is staged fairly literally. Expect a big church to open the evening and an impressive battlement to close it.
Spoletta enters with the news that Angelotti was found but killed himself before he could be arrested. Furthermore, the execution of Cavaradossi has been arranged. Hearing all this, the now broken Tosca agrees to Scarpias deal. Scarpia tells Spoletta to complete the execution in the same manner as the execution of Count Palmieri.
Tosca presses Scarpia to also grant her and Cavaradossi safe passage from Rome the next day. He agrees and while writing out the letter... Tosca finds a knife on the dinner table. As Scarpia moves to rape her, she stabs him to death.
Tosca arrives and quickly explains everything. The execution will be faked, the firing squad will use blanks so Cavaradossi must pretend to die. They joyously sing of the life they can now have together.
Cavaradossi is led away to be shot. The marksmen fire, Cavaradossi falls to the ground. The marksmen depart as Tosca runs over to Cavaradossi. Surprise, surprise! She finds him dead, Scarpia had tricked her all along. Spoletta is heard off stage with soldiers, Scarpias body has been found! Tosca runs to the parapet and crying O Scarpia, Avanti a Di...
Puccini's Tosca had the longest gestation period of any of his operas. Victorien Sardou's drama La Tosca was first suggested as a possible subject in 1889, but Puccini wrote and premiered two other operas (Manon Lescaut and La Boheme) before settling his energies on Tosca, which finally premiered in January 1900. The opera likely would never have b...
In 1894, Alberto Franchetti was already working on an opera based on Sardou's play and his libretto was being written by Luigi Illica, who was also working on Puccini's La Boheme at the time. One day in Paris while Sardou was meeting with Illica to discuss what he had written so far, Giuseppe Verdi - the most successful operatic composer in the wor...
The premiere took place in Rome at the Teatro Costanzi. Despite rumors of a possible bomb threat because of the current political unrest, it went off without incident. It was well received by the public although less so by the critics.
Tosca has been wildly popular since it's premiere and was the 5th most performed opera from 2007 to 2012 according Operabase.
The instruction \"exit with the principals\" doesn't fully work in the case of Tosca. In older times when opera productions were sometimes only minimally rehearsed, a director might have said such a thing to the supernumeries. The, no doubt apocryphal, story goes that the soldiers in the final Act of Tosca were given just this instruction and as To...
Another popular myth relating to Tosca's suicide, and this seems a more likely tale, is the placement of a trampoline rather than a mattress for extra safety for the falling Soprano. The audience as a result got not only Tosca's initial fall but also a series of successive appearances and disappearances behind the battlements...
La Tosca by Sardou is a well-made play. This term isnt a mark of quality but a specific form of theatre that conforms to certain criteria. An artificial, mechanical method of playwrighting that required a slow suspenseful build up to a climactic scene when all the plot threads become resolved. The plot usually hinged on props rather than people, le...
Sardou specified that his story took place from 17 June 1800 to dawn the following morning, and while Puccini's libretto just states June 1800, he intended the same specificity. Because of that detail and the fact that each act takes place in a single location in Rome, and those locations still exist, it was perhaps inevitable that someone would tr...
Another version of less interest, but deserving of mention maybe just because of its cast, is the 2001 Tosca directed by the French filmmaker Benoit Jacquot. Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna star as Tosca and Cavaradossi, but while the film presents the opera in a linear fashion, it does so using video of a studio session interspersed with perfo...
There have been dozens of recordings made and books written about Tosca. Here are some of our favourites.
Tosca, opera in three acts by Italian composer Giacomo Puccini (Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa) that premiered at the Costanzi Theatre in Rome on January 14, 1900. Based on French playwright Victorien Sardou’s popular play La Tosca (1887), the opera is about political.
Playwright Victorien Sardou’s play La Tosca (1887), written for Sarah Bernhardt, provided inspiration for Puccini’s fifth opera. Almost immediately upon seeing it, Puccini became determined to set it to music.
Jul 15, 2021 · One of opera’s strongest, most independent, most adoring, and most desirable women — is the flamboyant diva Floria Tosca. Giacomo Puccini’s opera has attracted great sopranos for well over a century, because of its heroine, the thrilling music she sings, and her overpowering emotions.
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