Giacomo Puccini: Tosca

Giacomo Puccini: Tosca
Title Giacomo Puccini: Tosca PDF eBook
Author Mosco Carner
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 180
Release 1985-09-05
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780521296618

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A guide for opera goers to Tosca, which includes a synopsis of the plot and discussions on style.

La Tosca

La Tosca
Title La Tosca PDF eBook
Author Victorien Sardou
Publisher
Pages 86
Release 2017-08-21
Genre Music
ISBN 9781375769242

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Tosca

Tosca
Title Tosca PDF eBook
Author Giacomo Puccini
Publisher
Pages 118
Release 1899
Genre Operas
ISBN

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Tosca's Rome

Tosca's Rome
Title Tosca's Rome PDF eBook
Author Susan Vandiver Nicassio
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 370
Release 2002-01-15
Genre History
ISBN 9780226579726

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A timeless tale of love, lust, and politics, Tosca is one of the most popular operas ever written. In Tosca's Rome, Susan Vandiver Nicassio explores the surprising historical realities that lie behind Giacomo Puccini's opera and the play by Victorien Sardou on which it is based. By far the most "historical" opera in the active repertoire, Tosca is set in a very specific time and place: Rome, from June 17 to 18, 1800. But as Nicassio demonstrates, history in Tosca is distorted by nationalism and by the vehement anticlerical perceptions of papal Rome shared by Sardou, Puccini, and the librettists. To provide the historical background necessary for understanding Tosca, Nicassio takes a detailed look at Rome in 1800 as each of Tosca's main characters would have seen it—the painter Cavaradossi, the singer Tosca, and the policeman Scarpia. Finally, she provides a scene-by-scene musical and dramatic analysis of the opera. "[Nicassio] must be the only living historian who can boast that she once sang the role of Tosca. Her deep knowledge of Puccini's score is only to be expected, but her understanding of daily and political life in Rome at the close of the 18th century is an unanticipated pleasure. She has steeped herself in the period and its prevailing culture-literary, artistic, and musical-and has come up with an unusual, and unusually entertaining, history."—Paul Bailey, Daily Telegraph "In Tosca's Rome, Susan Vandiver Nicassio . . . orchestrates a wealth of detail without losing view of the opera and its pleasures. . . . Nicassio aims for opera fans and for historians: she may well enthrall both."—Publishers Weekly "This is the book that ranks highest in my estimation as the most in-depth, and yet highly entertaining, journey into the story of the making of Tosca."—Catherine Malfitano "Nicassio's prose . . . is lively and approachable. There is plenty here to intrigue everyone-seasoned opera lovers, musical novices, history buffs, and Italophiles."—Library Journal

Tosca

Tosca
Title Tosca PDF eBook
Author Giacomo Puccini
Publisher Alma Books
Pages 81
Release 2018-01-01
Genre Music
ISBN 0714545376

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These Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original.'Puccini's motto could be: "e;The maximum effect with the simplest means"e;,' suggests Bernard Keeffe. He analyses different aspects of the score, noting particularly Puccini's genius for orchestration, and the infinitely subtle effects that give the melodrama irresistible vitality. Stuart Woolfe's scholarly assessment of the significance of the historical themes for Puccini explains many of the motives of the protagonists. Tosca is a supreme example of music's power to enthral an audience and Bernard Williams discusses the particular quality of its appeal.

Puccini's Tosca

Puccini's Tosca
Title Puccini's Tosca PDF eBook
Author Burton D. Fisher
Publisher Opera Journeys Publishing
Pages 116
Release 2005
Genre Music
ISBN 0977132048

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A comprehensive guide to Puccini's TOSCA, featuring insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis, a complete, newly translated Libretto with Italian/English side-by side, and over 20 music highlight examples.

La Tosca

La Tosca
Title La Tosca PDF eBook
Author Victorien Sardou
Publisher Edwin Mellen Press
Pages 164
Release 1990
Genre Drama
ISBN

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A translation of La Tosca, the play that inspired the Puccini opera, complete with annotations and critical comments. This work seeks to give a well-rounded picture of Sardou as a playwright who imbued his pieces with a wealth of historical knowledge.