The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1887 French-language dramatic play, La Tosca, is a melodramatic piece set in Rome in June 1800, with the Kingdom of Naples's control of Rome threatened by Napoleon's invasion of Italy.

Musically, Tosca is structured as a through-composed work, with arias, recitative, choruses and other elements musically woven into a seamless whole.

Of particular note is his 1964 Royal Opera House production of Tosca with Maria Callas and Tito Gobbi.

The celesta is used in many 20th century opera scores, including Puccini's Tosca ( 1900 ), Ravel's L ' heure espagnole ( 1911 ), Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos ( 1912 ), and Die Frau ohne Schatten ( 1918 ), while " an excellent example of its beauty when well employed ", is the Silver Rose scene in his Der Rosenkavalier ( 1911 ), Busoni's Arlecchino ( 1917 ) and Doktor Faust ( 1925 ), Orff's Der Mond ( 1939 ), Menotti's Amelia Goes to the Ball ( 1937 ), Britten's The Turn of the Screw ( 1954 ) and A Midsummer Night's Dream ( 1960 ), Susa's Transformations ( 1973 ), and Philip Glass ' Akhnaten ( 1984 ).

This technique is one of the main arsenals of dramatic singers especially useful in verismo operas e. g. Tosca, Pagliacci, and Cavalleria rusticana, where it can be used to great effect in recitatives and declamatory passages ; it also allows more lyric voices to safely survive the strain of bread-and-butter lyrico-spinto roles such as Mario ( Tosca ).

La Tosca is a five-act drama by the 19th-century French playwright Victorien Sardou.

The play itself is no longer performed, but its operatic adaptation, Giacomo Puccini's Tosca, has achieved enduring popularity.

La Tosca is set in Rome on 17 June 1800 following the French victory in the Battle of Marengo.

He was known for the historical research which he used to inform his plays and had a private research library of over 80, 000 books including Piranesi's etchings of late 18th century Rome, where La Tosca is set.

This time Ernest Daudet ( a brother of Alphonse Daudet ) made the accusation, claiming that four years earlier, he and Gilbert-Augustin Thierry had written a play, Saint Aubin, which takes place in Paris on the day after the Battle of Marengo ( roughly the same time-setting as La Tosca ) and whose heroine ( like Tosca ) is a celebrated opera singer.

Floria Tosca is an orphan from Verona, where she had been found as a child, roaming the hillsides and herding sheep.

Sardou took a long time to decide on her name and may have finally been influenced by Saint Tosca who is particularly revered in Verona.

He also wrote several plays that were made into popular 19th-century operas such as La Tosca ( 1887 ) on which Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca ( 1900 ) is based, and Fedora by Umberto Giordano, a work that popularized the fedora hat as well.

* Toska Beach: Tosca beach is 5 km from Kavala.

* Emma Hamilton is mentioned in the play La Tosca by Victorien Sardou.

The Castel is featured prominently in Puccini's opera Tosca.

This is not always true, however – Cavalleria rusticana, Pagliacci, Tosca, and other verismo operas have arias, duets and choruses that are constantly excerpted in recitals, and Turandot ( left incomplete at Puccini's death ) marks a return to a " numbers " style.

The most accepted modern-day view is that at least a few of his operas ( Tosca, for one ) are classifiable as verist.

GM Daewoo's official press releases says that Tosca is an acronym for " Tomorrow Standard Car ".

* Early in the film, the young Caruso is shown in a montage rising through the ranks from operatic chorister to supporting singer, including the minor role of Spoletta in Puccini's opera Tosca.

Puccini had been considering an opera on this theme since he saw the play Tosca by Victorien Sardou in 1889, when he wrote to his publisher, Giulio Ricordi, begging him to get Sardou's permission for the work to be made into an opera: " I see in this Tosca the opera I need, with no overblown proportions, no elaborate spectacle, nor will it call for the usual excessive amount of music.

This was a style introduced by Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana and Ruggiero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci that came virtually to dominate the world's opera stages with such popular works as Giacomo Puccini's La bohème, Tosca, and Madama Butterfly.

Although none of the major opera houses "... use traditional, Broadway-style sound reinforcement, in which most if not all singers are equipped with radio microphones mixed to a series of unsightly loudspeakers scattered throughout the theatre ", many use a sound reinforcement system for acoustic enhancement, and for subtle boosting of offstage voices, child singers, onstage dialogue, and sound effects ( e. g., church bells in Tosca or thunder effects in Wagnerian operas ).

** The opera Tosca premieres in Rome, Italy.

On 7 May 1889 he wrote to his publisher, Giulio Ricordi, begging him to get Sardou's permission for the work to be made into an opera: " I see in this Tosca the opera I need, with no overblown proportions, no elaborate spectacle, nor will it call for the usual excessive amount of music.

" Instead, most opera houses use the sound reinforcement system for acoustic enhancement, and for subtle boosting of offstage voices, onstage dialogue, and sound effects ( e. g., church bells in Tosca or thunder in Wagnerian operas ).

Its melodramatic plot centers on Floria Tosca, a celebrated opera singer ; her lover, Mario Cavaradossi, an artist and Bonapartist sympathiser ; and Baron Scarpia, Rome's ruthless Regent of Police.

When he visited Rome in 1800 to settle his father's estate, he met and fell in love with the celebrated opera singer, Floria Tosca, and decided to prolong his stay.

As a prison, it was also the setting for the third act of Giacomo Puccini's Tosca from whose ramparts the eponymous heroine of the opera leaps to her death.

In Puccini's opera Tosca ( 1900 ), set in Napoleonic Rome, the heroine's confrontation with the malevolent Chief of Police, Scarpia, takes place in Palazzo Farnese.

His other published complete opera recordings included La traviata with Rosanna Carteri, Cesare Valletti, and conductor Pierre Monteux, Pagliacci with Victoria de los Ángeles, Jussi Björling and Robert Merrill ; Tosca, Aida, and Il trovatore, each with Zinka Milanov and Jussi Björling ; a second recording of Il trovatore with his friend and final tenor co-star, Richard Tucker, featuring a young Leontyne Price in her Met debut role of Leonora ; and Verdi's Macbeth, with Leonie Rysanek and Carlo Bergonzi.

The company inaugurated the new opera house with a performance of Tosca on October 15, 1932 with Claudia Muzio in the title role.

They remained with Puccini for his next three operas and probably his greatest successes: La bohème, Tosca and Madama Butterfly.

San Francisco Opera partnered with Giants Enterprises, to do three broadcasts, most recently Tosca, in June & September 2009.

She returned to Philadelphia in 1967 to sing the title roles in Puccini's Tosca and Madama Butterfly and to the Met to sing three Verdi heroines: Leonora in Il trovatore opposite Richard Tucker as Manrico, Desdemona in Otello opposite James McCracken in the title role, and Violetta in La traviata with Tucker and George Shirley alternating as Alfredo.

She also added the Puccini heroines of Manon Lescaut and Tosca to her repertoire, and recorded Madama Butterfly and the three roles of Il trittico.

Their three caporegimes are Ronnie Tosca, Michael Costa, and Mario DeBellis.

It was followed by Tosca ( 1900 ), arguably Puccini's first foray into verismo, the realistic depiction of many facets of real life including violence.

* Tosca, libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa ( premiered at the Teatro Costanzi, 14 January 1900 )

* Suzuki ( album ), album by duo Tosca

* 1908: La Tosca ( Tosca, as Tosca ) A one-reel condensation of the play by the same name by Victorien Sardou.

After a short tour of the United States, where he visited Hollywood, he returned to Italy to be Renoir's assistant again, this time for La Tosca ( 1939 ), a production that was interrupted and later completed by German director Karl Koch because of World War II.

The most prominent verismo baritones included such major singers in Europe and America as the polished Giuseppe De Luca ( the first Sharpless in Madama Butterfly ), Mario Sammarco ( the first Gerard in Andrea Chénier ), Eugenio Giraldoni ( the first Scarpia in Tosca ), Pasquale Amato ( the first Rance in La fanciulla del West ), Riccardo Stracciari ( noted for his richly attractive timbre ) and Domenico Viglione-Borghesi, whose voice was exceeded in size only by that of the lion-voiced Titta Ruffo.

* La Tosca ( 1941 ) begun by Renoir

On discovering that Cavaradossi's execution had in fact been a real one, Tosca commits suicide by throwing herself from the castle's parapets.

Floria Tosca also throws herself from the rooftop after discovering Cavaradossi's death to escape capture by Scarpia's henchmen.