In 'Tosca' Puccini explored the dark side of human emotion a marked change from the late-Romantic sentimentality of 'La Boheme'. Also in contrast to 'La Bohème' where the villain was fate and so the stage action was minimal both heros and villains are humans who struggle on stage and the clashes are always between single individuals. It is a story of cheating and doubt - nothing seems honest …

Full Score/Partitura-Tosca was first performed in Rome at the Teatro Costanzi on 14 January 1900. Based on a play by Vincent Sardou the libretto unfolds in an effective rhetoric that is both direct and decidedly dramatic. The characters and the action seem embossedwith touches of polished emotional pliancy reinforced by the orchestration and vocal style of the music. But the music is also resp…

Opera in Three Acts-Text in English