Tosca's Rome: The Play and the Opera in Historical Perspective by Susan Vandiver Nicassio

Tosca's Rome: The Play and the Opera in Historical Perspective



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Tosca's Rome: The Play and the Opera in Historical Perspective Susan Vandiver Nicassio
Page: 356
ISBN: 9780226579726
Publisher: University of Chicago Press

A timeless tale of love, lust, and politics, Tosca is one of the most popular operas ever written. In Tosca's Rome, Susan Vandiver Nicassio explores the surprising historical realities that lie behind Giacomo Puccini's opera and the play by Victorien Sardou on which it is based. By far the most "historical" opera in the active repertoire, Tosca is set in a very specific time and place: Rome, from June 17 to 18, 1800. But as Nicassio demonstrates, history in Tosca is distorted by nationalism and by the vehement anticlerical perceptions of papal Rome shared by Sardou, Puccini, and the librettists. To provide the historical background necessary for ... MORE EBOOKS:
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