Te Deum
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The Te Deum is a Latin Christian hymn traditionally ascribed to a date before AD 500, but perhaps with antecedents that place it much earlier. It is central to the Ambrosian hymnal, which spread throu
Te Deum stained glass window by Christopher Whall at St Mary's church, Ware, Hertfordshire
Vatican Reg. Lat. 11, fol. 230v (Frankish Hymnal, mid-8th century)
Te Deum on a stained glass window in the Sorrowful Mother Shrine Chapel (Bellevue, Ohio)
12th-century murals in Vä Church, Sweden, depicting angels and saints holding scrolls with the text of Te Deum
Tosca
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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. The work, based on Victo
Te Deum
…Handel, three settings by Charles Villiers Stanford, two settings by Arthur Sullivan, and two settings by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca features a dramatic performance of the initial part of the Te Deum at the end of Act I. The traditional chant melody was the basis for elaborate Te…
Original poster, depicting the death of Scarpia
Punch cartoon depicting the end of Sardou's La Tosca, 1888
The Battle of Marengo as painted by Louis-François Lejeune
The Te Deum scene which concludes act 1; Scarpia stands at left. Photograph of a pre-1914 production at the old Metropolitan Opera House, New York