La Tosca

La Tosca

Author: V. Sardou

Publisher: Рипол Классик

Published:

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1148737901

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La Tosca

La Tosca

Author: Victorien Sardou

Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13:

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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.


Tosca

Tosca

Author: Giacomo Puccini

Publisher: Alma Books

Published: 2018-01-01

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 0714544787

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Tosca, one of Puccini's greatest and most popular operas, is a supreme example of music's power to enthral the audience. In his introductory essay to this guide, Bernard Williams discusses the enduring quality of its appeal. Bernard Keeffe, in his article, analyses different aspects of the score, noting Puccini's special genius for orchestration and the subtle effects that give the opera its irresistible vitality, while Stuart Woolf's survey of the historical background reveals its political and nationalistic undertones.Enriched by twenty-five archive photographs, a detailed thematic analysis, the original libretto with the facing literal translation and a section containing up-to-date discographical and bibliographical information, this guide will prove an invaluable companion for opera-goers and anyone wanting to delve deeper into the genesis, history and significance of Puccini's work.Contains:Manifest Artifice, Bernard WilliamsThe Music of Puccini's Tosca, Bernard KeeffeHistorical Perspectives on Tosca, Stuart WoolfTosca: Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica after the play La Tosca by Victorien SardouTosca: English translation by EMI Classics


Giacomo Puccini: Tosca

Giacomo Puccini: Tosca

Author: Mosco Carner

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1985-09-05

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780521296618

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


Erte

Erte

Author: Jean Tibbetts

Publisher: Bison Books

Published: 1995-01-01

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9781858411576

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Tosca's Prism

Tosca's Prism

Author: Deborah Burton

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 9781555536169

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Distinguished musicologists, historians, theater professionals, and luminaries of the operatic stage reflect on European history in 1800, 1900 and 2000 through the prism of Puccini's Tosca.


Tosca's Rome

Tosca's Rome

Author: Susan Vandiver Nicassio

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2002-01-15

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 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


The Theatre

The Theatre

Author: Clement Scott

Publisher:

Published: 1888

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13:

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Vol. for 1888 includes dramatic directory for Feb.-Dec.; vol. for 1889 includes dramatic directory for Jan.-May.