Stills of Tosca

Description of theatre

In the 1800s, Roman painter Mario Cavalladozzi was arrested for covering up political prisoners Angloti, and opera actress Toscana was in love with him. Police director Scopia was captivated by Toscana and promised to let her lover be free. In return, she had to be entrusted to him. Toscana was forced to hypocritically obey, after the police director had just written a false execution order and struck him without a spare knife. At dawn, Mario was taken to the prison and Toscana told him that it was just an execution, who thought it was the police director's trick, and Mario was actually executed. At this time, the murdered general prosecutor had been discovered and determined that Scalpius was killed.

Tosca is an opera in three acts composed by Puccini, a great Italian composer, based on the play of the same name by Sardu, a French playwright. The opera tells a touching love tragedy that happened in Rome in 1800. Tosca is one of the most performed operas on the world opera stage and the most popular opera at present. Today, it has become a repertory in many opera houses. The opera Tosca premiered in Rome in 1900. This year coincides with its 100th anniversary.

The story of the opera "Toscana" tells the story of the 1800-year-old Rome, where the painter Cavalladossi was arrested by the police station for covering up the revolutionary who had fled the prison. The painter's lover, the opera actor Toscana, found the police chief Scopia asking him for tolerance. Scopia had long denied the beauty of Toscana, so he proposed that Toscana sell his body in exchange for Cavalladossi's life and freedom.

In order to save his lover, Tosca, under the scam of Skopje, had only to agree to his disgraceful request, and as soon as Skopje laughed, said: "Tosca, you are finally mine."

Early in the morning, at the penitentiary on the rooftop platform, Toskana told Cavalladozi that it was a false sentence, and specifically told him that after the shooting of the gun, he would not be put to death until the crowd dispersed, and they could leave his country. But after the shooting of the sentence, Toskana discovered that she was deceived. At the time of Toskana's unusual sorrow for the loss of her lover, Scabia's servants also found the body of their chief officer and came to catch Toskana. When the police and soldiers came to Toskana, Toskana angrily shouted: Scabia, I went to see God with you!

Though Toscana is a love tragedy, composer Puccini has written a lot of emotions, music-friendly chants and recitals for it, such as Toscana's chants "For art, for love", Kavaradosi's chants "How wonderful, how harmonious" and "This night is bright" etc. Over the past 100 years, these immortal melodies have not only been widely performed on the stage of concerts outside the opera, but also became an important participation regulatory song in many international vocal competitions today, thus showing the thrill and beauty of Puccini's music.