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	Tosca - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, based on Victorien Sardou's drama, La Tosca.
		Tosca is generally considered of capital importance in the history of opera because of its many highpoints.
		Soprano Renata Tebaldi, one of best Toscas at all, was famous for her exaggerated outcries in final scenes; once, in Tokyo, she decided not to jump for the final suicide, but chose instead to exit by the quinte, walking among astonished policemen as only a diva could.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tosca (2577 words)

	La Tosca
		It is very briefly the story of a painter and his lover, a famous singer, who die because they have helped an escaped political prisoner avoid arrest; Tosca attempts to seduce the chief policeman, who tricks her and is killed by her, but has his revenge after his death.
		Floria Tosca is a singer, beloved by Cavaradossi; she is here to invite her lover Mario to a meeting later in the evening, but having heard voices by the closed door, she jealously imagines an intrigue with a woman, her fears being apparently confirmed by the picture.
		Tosca arrives and crosses the painter who is brought in a near room (Scarpia: Ed or fra noi parliam da buoni amici – “Now, let us talk of pure friendship”) Scarpia describes to her in detail her lover’s anguish under torture.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/l/la/la_tosca.html (2337 words)

	La Tosca -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		La Tosca (or simply Tosca) is a three-act (A drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes) opera by (Italian operatic composer noted for the dramatic realism of his operas (1858-1924)) Giacomo Puccini.
		A (A large artillery gun that is usually on wheels) cannon shot from the (A fortified defensive structure) fortress (Castel Sant'Angelo) warns that his escape has been discovered and compels him to flee; the painter exits the church with him.
		ACT II In the (Click link for more info and facts about Palazzo Farnese) Palazzo Farnese (now the (An ambassador and his entourage collectively) embassy of (A republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe) France) where he lives, Scarpia is dining, while celebrations are heard outside.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/la/la_tosca.htm (2542 words)

	La Tosca - Puccini
		Floria Tosca, Mario’s fiancée, and a famous singer, suspects Mario of a flirtation, and the suspicion is fostered by Scarpia, who is able to show her a fan dropped by Angelotti in his flight.
		After a scene between Tosca and her lover in the prison, Scarpia’s treachery is revealed; for Mario, in spite of Scarpia’s promise to order blank cartridge, is really shot, and the preconcerted plan by which he was to feign death and then escape comes to naught.
		The music shows the hand that wrote "La Bohème"; but, at the same time, as a critic pointed out after the first London performance in July 1900, it is more closely akin to the work of Mascagni and Leoncavallo than the earlier and lighter opera.
	www.music-with-ease.com /puccini-la-tosca.html (526 words)

	Tosca - abmusica.com
		Tosca is heard calling outside for her "Mario." Cavaradossi gives the fugitive a few hurried directions, and Angelotti disappears, taking with him a woman's dress left as a disguise for him by his sister.
		Hearing Tosca‘s voice leading the choir in a victory cantata sung in the Queen’s apartment nearby, he sends a message to her, saying that he has received word of her lover.
		First, Tosca washes the blood from her hands; then with grim reverence, she places lighted candles at the head and a crucifix on the bosom of the corpse, crosses herself, and steals noiselessly away.
	www.abmusica.com /tosca.htm (1512 words)

	"La Tosca"
		It was put together by the French dramatist as a tour de force to furnish the great tragedienne a vehicle with which she might depict the soul of a woman tortured to frenzy until in a moment of righteous rage she slays the author of her misery.
		"La Tosca" is introduced as a beautiful, light hearted Italian woman surrounded by admirers, courted by everyone for her artistic ability, and loving the painter, Mario Cavaradossi, with all the ardor of her Latin temperament.
		The singer and Mario are arrested, and Tosca is forced to listen to the groans of her tortured lover until she reveals the hiding place of Cavaradossi [i.e.
	www.stanford.edu /~gdegroat/PF/reviews/tosca.htm (1318 words)

	La Tosca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Es muy brevemente la historia un pintor y su amante, cantante famoso, que muere del porque han ayudado a un preso político escapado a evitar la detención; Las tentativas de Tosca de seducir al jefe del policía, que la trampea y es matado por ella, pero tienen su venganza después de su muerte.
		Tosca intenta seguirlo, pero Scarpia la sujeta detrás.
		Tosca se considera generalmente de importancia de capital en la historia de la ópera debido a sus muchos highpoints.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/la/La%20Tosca.htm (2540 words)

	La Tosca (Puccini) - Synopsis
		Tosca is not aware that it is the torture chamber the door to which has closed upon her lover.
		Tosca, seeing her lover, rushes up to him and, unable to speak for sheer emotion, lifts his hands and shows him -- herself and the safe-conduct.
		Tosca stops her ears with her hands so that she may not hear the explosion.
	www.music-with-ease.com /puccini-la-tosca-synopsis.html (3059 words)

	TOSCA
		In 1889 Fontano, the librettist of "Le Villi" and Edgar", suggested "La Tosca" to Puccini as the subject of a new opera, but it took time for the publisher Ricordi to arrange for the rights to the play.
		At first, Puccini was not so interested in "Tosca" because he still had qualms about the subject matter, but the interview of Franchetti and Illica with Sardou in Paris, and the assistance of Verdi there, awakened Puccini's interest, and he decided that he wanted to compose Tosca after all.
		Tosca throws herself off the parapet and cries that she will meet Scarpia before God.
	www.geocities.com /airepuccini_english/TOSCA.html (635 words)

	SARAH BERNHARDT - LoveToKnow Article on SARAH BERNHARDT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Jean Richepins Nana Sahib (1883), Sardous Tlzodora (1884) and La Tosca (1887), Jules Barbiers Jeanne dArc (f89o) and Sardou and Moreaus Cliopdtre (1890) were among her most conspicuous successes here, where she remained till she became proprietress of the Renaissance theatre in 1893.
		In December 1896 an elaborate fte was organized in Paris in her honor; and the value of this public recognition of her position at the head of her profession was enhanced by cordial greetings from all parts of the world.
		Early in 1899 she removed from the Renaissance to the Thhtre des Nations, a larger house, which she opened with a revival of La Tosca.
	www.87.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BE/BERNHARDT_SARAH.htm (840 words)

	Cómo sacarle el jugo a la tosca
		La faja sur de la provincia de Buenos Aires se caracteriza, en buena parte de su extensión, por tener suelos con presencia de tosca a profundidades variables.
		La principal subregión en extensión es la que comprende las zonas centro y norte de los partidos de San Cayetano y Tres Arroyos.
		Con la inclusión de la soja de segunda en la rotación "se pudieron desarrollar zonas en agricultura continua con un margen de ingreso por unidad de superficie semejante al ingreso de zonas de mejor aptitud.
	www.arquitectura.clarin.com /suplementos/rural/2005/04/16/r-01215.htm (1139 words)

	Tosca Goes Online: Historical Notes (Music Feature)
		From the start, La Tosca was attacked on account not only of its brutality (both the play and the opera depict torture, attempted rape and murder) but also its originality (or lack thereof).
		The playwright Ernest Daudet charged that Sardou had stolen key facets of the plot from his La Sainte Aubin, which takes place, as does the action of Sardou's play, on the occasion of Napoleon's fateful battle at Marengo, and in which the female lead is, like Tosca, a renowned singer.
		These criticisms and charges notwithstanding, La Tosca proved to be a considerable success for the playwright, referred to by contemporaries as "the Caligula of the stage."
	music.minnesota.publicradio.org /features/9809_tosca/history.html (735 words)

	Amazon.com: Tosca / Maria Callas, di Stefano, Gobbi; De Sabata: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Callas delivers the ultimate rendition of the title role; soft and tender in the areas where tenderness is required (her Vissi d'arte is incredible), and impassioned and fervent where it is called for.
		As adorable as he is as Figaro, he is devious, sarcastic, yet strangely alluring as Scarpia; to the degree that one feels the true eroticism lies between Tosca and he, rather than between she and Mario.
		This Tosca demonstrates vividly the aspects of Maria Callas' voice that ultimately made her one of the best vocalists of the century: Extreme versatility, passion, impeccable technique, strength and endurance, and a voice and soul containing such beauty that she brings tears to the eyes of anyone willing to accept her for what she is.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002RXZ?v=glance (1783 words)

	La Tosca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Scarpia suspiciously asks the sacristan, when Tosca returns, also suspicious, he watches her from behind a pillar, while the church gets crowded and a Cardinal prepares for the Te Deum.
		Tosca arrives and crosses the painter who is brought in a near room (Scarpia: Ed or fra noi parliam da buoni amici - ?Now, let us talk of pure friendship?) Scarpia describes to her in detail her lover?s anguish under torture.
		Tosca repulses Scarpia again and again and asks the Lord the reason of all this cruelty against her (Tosca: Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore - ?Love and music have I lived for?; Scarpia: Sei troppo bella, Tosca, e troppo amante - ?Too lovely art thou?).
	www.eurofreehost.com /la/La_Tosca_4.html (541 words)

	pucciniana! giacomo puccini and tosca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tosca: opera in 3 acts, libretto by Luigi Illica (prose text) and Giuseppe Giacosa (verses), based on Victorien Sardou's play of the same name, music by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), first performed 14th January 1900 at the Teatro Costanzi, Rome, with the following cast:
		The 1887 play 'La Tosca', upon which Puccini's opera is based, was written by French playwright Victorien Sardou as a vehicle for Sarah Bernhardt.
		'Tosca' is one of the undisputed 'top ten' of the repertoire, and the frequent attacks by critics on its brutality (of which Joseph Kerman's polemic against what he called 'a shabby little shocker' is a typical example) have not diminished its enormous appeal to audiences everywhere.
	www.r-ds.com /opera/pucciniana/tosca.htm (658 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Features - Tosca in jackboots treads triumphant path (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Instead of flowing gowns and men in tights, Tosca worked her fruitless charm in an astrakhan coat and pert 1940s tilted hat, while Scarpia wreaked his terror in the fearsome uniform of the fascisti.
		Even Victorien Sardou, the author of the 1889 play La Tosca on which the opera was based, considered Puccini’s treatment of the story far more dramatic than his own.
		As Tosca threw herself from the ramparts, the volunteers followed their instructions to the letter, and a stage mass suicide was added to opera’s existing human carnage.
	news.scotsman.com /features.cfm?id=1259672004 (1184 words)

	Nicassio, Ten Things You Didn't Know About Tosca
		Puccini's Tosca, one of the most popular operas in the repertoire ever since its January 14, 1900 premiere, is a violent drama based on Victorien Sardou's hit play La Tosca, which was written as a star vehicle for the famous French actress Sarah Bernhardt.
		Tosca arrives and tells him that they will soon be free, but the firing squad is all too real.
		Although Floria Tosca is supposed to be a beloved Roman opera star, in reality it had been illegal for women to appear on the operatic stage in the papal capital from the seventeenth century until 1798—about three years before Tosca is set.
	www.press.uchicago.edu /Misc/Chicago/579719.html (1853 words)

	ELDIA.ES > Tenerife Norte > Sentencia a favor de los vecinos de la calle La Tosca de la Iglesia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		La Audiencia Provincial de Tenerife ha dado la razón a los vecinos de la calle La Tosca de la Iglesia, de Santa Úrsula, en su denuncia a la carpintería de la vía que, según la reciente sentencia, les ha perjudicado "seriamente la salud".
		La sala obliga a la empresa a indemnizar a los afectados por los daños y perjuicios sufridos, en una decisión opuesta a la tomada en primera instancia por el Juzgado de La Orotava, que respaldaba las tesis del negocio.
		La Audiencia considera que en ese primer juicio se cometieron errores en la valoración de la prueba y cree probados los perjuicios.
	83.175.206.50 /2003-03-18/norte/norte12.htm (325 words)

	Hour.ca - Food - La Tosca
		Fortunately, La Tosca is an agreeable place in which to wait.
		I have been to "La Tosca" before and let me tell you that it is a fine restaurant to dine at.
		La Tosca is a five star restaurant and it is a huge hit in my book.
	www.hour.ca /food/food.aspx?iIDArticle=5218 (1263 words)

	Hôtel La Villa Tosca - Cannes hotels at LateRooms.com - Hotels in Cannes cheap hotels near Cannes France
		La Villa Tosca est situé en plein centre ville entre la gare S.N.C.F. et les plages.
		Le charme d'une maison bourgeoise de la salle de petit déjeuner,la décoration comptempraine de nos chambres caractérisent cet hotel.
		La Villa Tosca is located between the train station and the beaches.
	www.laterooms.com /en/C73258.html (594 words)

	Cinema Treasures \| La Tosca Theatre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The La Tosca, at 30th and Vermont, screened old German movies and newsreels (Neue Deutsche Wochenschau) every weekend during the 1950s and early 1960s, usually playing to a full house.
		Other than the name La Tosca, the most "Italian memory" I have of the theater is of two murals or bas-relief sculptures flanking the stage/screen area and depicting a lute-player serenading his sweetheart who was looking down from a mini-balcony.
		When I photographed the exterior of the La Tosca in 1979, the marquee was painted light blue and the building was white (paint flaking off on the corner side that housed a small shop formerly called Hansa Haus).
	cinematreasures.org /theater/3492 (1176 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Music: Puccini: Tosca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		at the end of act II as Tosca justifies her cries in church to Scarpia: "Egli vede ch'io piango!" (..He sees me weeping) is sung with such emotion it cannot fail to move you.
		She agrees, but the kiss he has so longed for is the fatal kiss of a knife blade.
		Tosca vows to meet Scarpia in front of God as she leaps over the side of the building to her death.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000002RXZ (1001 words)

	Amazon.com: Puccini: Tosca: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This is the melodramatic TOSCA, and the '53 is the dramatic TOSCA.
		Callas' 1953 Tosca will always be my favorite, but this one is almost as good.
		They actually ruined some of the effects such as Tosca's approaching "Mario, Mario, Mario", which now sounds like Callas is right in front of the microphone, which was not the effect the producer Walter Legge wanted.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000630W?v=glance (1374 words)

	La Tosca (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The success was complete, even if the difference between Tosca's and La BohèmeBohème/'s atmospheres was quite surprising.
		(Sacristan and chorus: ''Tutta qui la cantoria!'' – “All here, into the choir loft”) They falsely believe that Napoleon has been defeated and are there to sing a thankful ''Te Deum'', when Scarpia, chief of police, arrives with Spoletta and some of his men in search of the escaped prisoner.
		In the Palazzo Farnese, RomePalazzo Farnese (now the embassy of France/) where he lives, Scarpia is dining, while celebrations are heard outside.
	www.infothis.com /find/La_Tosca (2690 words)

	Ross Originals - Cross Stitch designs, La Tosca
		La Tosca is one of the many roles played by the legendary French actress, Sarah Bernhardt (1844 - 1923).
		If you particularly like this design, may I recommend 'Gismonda' and 'La Trappistine' which can also be found at this web site.
		For those who like the art of Mucha as much as I, included in my present range are Amethyst, Emerald and Ruby, as well as two monotones, Blue Girl and Green Girl.
	www.rossoriginals.com.au /latosca.htm (157 words)

	La Tosca Blois Restaurants Blois
		Vous êtes accueilli dans une ambiance très chaleureuse (la pseudo restauratrice fait la gueule, elle n'a pas du faire d'école hôtelière...
		L'accueil y est très froid, la carte n'a plus rien à voir avec la Tosca que l'on a bien connue auparavant ni la qualité d'ailleurs.
		Pour y mettre une touche de positif, la déco a été refaite, elle est jolie et agréable mais vraiment il n'y a que ça...
	www.hol.cityvox.com /restaurants_blois/la-tosca_57373/AvisLieu (398 words)

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