The Metropolitan Opera presents Giacomo Puccini's Tosca / music by Giacomo Puccini ; libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica ; based on the play La Tosca by Victorien Sardou.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924. Tosca.

Puccini, Giacomo.

Physical Description:

viii, 148 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Giacomo Puccini's Tosca

Place of Publication:

Milwaukee, WI : Amadeus Press, 2013.

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Synopsis / edited by Philipp Brieler

In focus / by William Berger

Program note / by David Hamilton

Thrill ride / by Philipp Brieler

Tosca.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781574674439

1574674439

OCLC:

859253394