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 Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. This version is conducted by Riccardo Muti at La Scala, Milan.
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Live performance from the Opéra National de Paris, 2003.
Richard Strauss's opera, from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
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The Glyndebourne Opera's 1981 production of the Benjamin Britten opera, based on Shakespeare's play.
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Sir David McVicar’s bold new staging of Tosca, Puccini’s operatic thriller of Napoleonic Rome, thril...
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