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Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900.
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.
Just over a year after its world premiere in Rome, Puccini’s Tosca had its first performance in the United States at the Met on February 2, 1901. It was in the same season that La Bohème made its Met debut, and again critical reception was surprisingly reserved.
Tosca: one of Puccini’s best known opera, but the composition was hardly a smooth road. Take a look at some of the key dates leading up to the premiere. 24 November 1887, Théâtre de la Porte, Saint-Martin, Paris. Première of Sardou’s La Tosca, with the celebrated actress Sarah Bernhardt in the title role. Spring 1889.
Luckily it still works as seen through 21st Century eyes because at its core, Tosca is a tale of romance over politics; featuring a heroic painter, a despicable ruler and an opera superstar, Tosca herself!
Set entirely within 48 hours, Tosca happens in the balmy days of mid-June 1800, in the years shortly after the French Revolution. Napoleon, fresh from victory in France, invaded Rome without opposition 1798, setting up a republic and exiling the reigning Pope, leading to the Church entering a time of turmoil.
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With Puccini ‘s richly romantic score, it is one of the world’s most loved operas. A tragic story of passion and jealousy, it tells the story of the tempestuous opera singer Floria Tosca, as she fights to save her lover Cavaradossi from the sadistic police chief Scarpia.
