When Giacomo Puccini saw Sarah Bernhardt in a production of La Tosca by French playwright Victorien Sardou, he knew immediately that its highly dramatic plot, turning on lust, revenge, and betrayal, was made for opera. When he heard that Verdi was interested in the...
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Tosca ? un'opera lirica in tre atti di Giacomo Puccini, su libretto di Giuseppe Giacosa e Luigi Illica, una breve storia d'amore e di morte. Nella Roma del 1800 dopo il fallimento della Repubblica Romana, quando lo Stato Pontificio sta catturando i rappresentanti ed i sostenitori...
"La Tosca" est une pi ce de th tre crite par Victorien Sardou, un dramaturge fran ais du XIXe si cle. Cette pi ce a t cr e pour la premi re fois en 1887 au Th tre de la Porte-Saint-Martin Paris. L'histoire de "La Tosca" se d roule Rome en 1800, pendant les v nements...