Enjoy one of the most performed operas in the history of music. “Tosca” is an opera in three acts with music by Giacomo Puccini and libretto in Italian by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It was successfully premiered in Rome on 14 January 1900 at the Teatro Costanzi. The text of the work is based on an intense drama, “La Tosca”, by Victorien Sardou, performed in Paris in 1887 with the great actress Sarah Bernhardt.
“Tosca” is considered one of the most representative operas of the Italian verismo repertoire for its dramatic intensity and for containing some of the most beautiful arias in the repertoire. The plot combines love, intrigue, violence, passion and death. Together with “Madama Butterfly” and “La Bohème”, it is one of Puccini’s best-known operas.