Tosca's Rome
Subtitle: The Play and the Opera in Historical Perspective
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: January 4, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780226579726
Subjects: European history: c 1750 to c 1900; Opera; Music; Music/Songbooks; Europe - Italy; Genres & Styles - Opera; History & Criticism - General; Music / Opera; Genres & Styles - Classical; 1798-1870; 1831-1908; Church and state; History; Italy; Rome; Rome (Italy); Sardou, Victorien,; Tosca
First sentence: Puccini, seduced by Tosca and determined to make an operatic heroine of her, went to negotiate with her "father" Victorien Sardou with his eyes open.