La Tosca is a five-act drama by the 19th-century French playwright Victorien Sardou. It was first performed on 24 November 1887 at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin in Paris, with Sarah Bernhardt i
Poster by Alphonse Mucha depicting Sarah Bernhardt in the title role
Sardou in an 1882 caricature from Le Trombinoscope
Sarah Bernhardt as Floria Tosca in her costume for Act 1
Sarah Bernhardt was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils, Ruy B
La Tosca
…the 19th-century French playwright Victorien Sardou. It was first performed on 24 November 1887 at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin in Paris, with Sarah Bernhardt in the title role. Despite negative reviews from the Paris critics at the opening night, it became one of Sardou's most successful plays and was toured…
Bernhardt with her mother
Debut of Bernhardt in Les Femmes Savantes at the Comédie-Française, 1862
Sarah Bernhardt in 1864; age 20, by photographer Félix Nadar