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
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
La Tosca
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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
Tosca
…Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1887 French-language dramatic play, La Tosca, is a melodramatic piece set in Rome in June 1800, with the Kingdom of Naples's control of Rome threatened by Napoleon's invasion of Italy. It contains…
Poster by Alphonse Mucha depicting Sarah Bernhardt in the title role
Sardou in an 1882 caricature from Le Trombinoscope
Queen Maria Carolina
Sarah Bernhardt as Floria Tosca in her costume for Act 1