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Tosca (other)
''Tosca'' is an opera by Giacomo Puccini. Tosca may also refer to: Entertainment * ''Tosca'' (1953 EMI recording), a recording of Puccini's opera conducted by Victor de Sabata * ''Tosca'' (1941 film), an Italian film by Carl Koch * ''Tosca'' (1956 film), an Italian musical melodrama film * ''Tosca'' (2001 film), a French drama film * Tosca (band), Austrian electronic band Science and technology * TOSCA or TSCA, US Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 * OASIS TOSCA (Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications), a cloud computing standard * Tricentis Tosca, a software testing tool * TOSCA, a neutron spectrometer at the ISIS neutron source * Project TOSCA (Toolbox for Surface Comparison and Analysis), a research project at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology * TOSCA (Tectonic Ocean Spreading at the Charlie-Gibbs Fracture Zone) Other uses * '' La Tosca'', an 1887 play by Victorien Sardou, from which Puccini's opera was adapted ** La Tosca (dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tosca
''Tosca'' is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. 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 Campaigns of 1800 in the French Revolutionary Wars#Italy, invasion of Italy. It contains depictions of torture, murder, and suicide, as well as some of Puccini's best-known lyrical arias. Puccini saw Sardou's play when it was touring Italy in 1889 and, after some vacillation, obtained the rights to turn the work into an opera in 1895. Turning the wordy French play into a succinct Italian opera took four years, during which the composer repeatedly argued with his librettists and publisher. ''Tosca'' premiered at a time of unrest in Rome, and its first performance was delayed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
