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Tosca, Giacomo Puccini

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Tosca, Giacomo Puccini
Language
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Form of composition
operas
Format of music
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Main title
Tosca
Music parts
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Oclc number
28934154
Responsibility statement
Giacomo Puccini
Summary
The singer Tosca and the painter Cavaradossi are lovers, but Baron Scarpia also has designs on Tosca, and arrests Cavaradossi for aiding a fugitive. He then offers to spare Cavaradossi by staging a mock execution if Tosca will surrender to his advances. She agrees, but stabs Scarpia to death with a concealed knife. When she discovers that the her lover was really executed, she leaps to her death
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resource.instrumentalist
resource.librettist
resource.singer
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