Tosca - Libretto

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By - Giacomo Puccini, Libretto by -- Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, After a play by -- Victorien Sardou, English version by -- John Gutman

Published by -- G. Schirmer Inc., (c) 1956, New York, Staple-Bound, v Libretto in Italian and English on 41 Facing Pages, 10.5" X 6.75" X .25", 6 oz.

Series - G. Schirmer's Collection of Opera Librettos, Ed. 2238

[WIKIPEDIA]

"Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. (...) [B]ased on Victorien Sardou's 1887 French-language dramatic play, La Tosca, [it] 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. It contains depictions of torture, murder, and suicide, as well as some of Puccini's best-known lyrical arias. (...) Tosca premiered at a time of unrest in Rome, and its first performance was delayed for a day for fear of disturbances. Despite indifferent reviews from the critics, the opera was an immediate success with the public. (...) While critics have often dismissed the opera as a facile melodrama with confusions of plot—musicologist Joseph Kerman famously called it a "shabby little shocker" —the power of its score and the inventiveness of its orchestration have been widely acknowledged."

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