The Metropolitan Opera Presents: Puccini's Tosca

The Metropolitan Opera Presents: Puccini's Tosca
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Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages : 152
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ISBN-10 : 9781574674507
ISBN-13 : 1574674501
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Book Synopsis The Metropolitan Opera Presents: Puccini's Tosca by : Luigi Illica

Download or read book The Metropolitan Opera Presents: Puccini's Tosca written by Luigi Illica and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Amadeus). 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 of 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.


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