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. The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1887 French-language dramatic play, La Tosca, 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.
Victorien Sardou was a French dramatist. He is best remembered today for his development, along with Eugène Scribe, of the well-made play. He also wrote several plays that were made into popular 19th-century operas such as La Tosca (1887) on which Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca (1900) is based, and Fédora (1882) and Madame Sans-Gêne (1893) that provided the subjects for the lyrical dramas Fedora (1898) and Madame Sans-Gêne (1915) by Umberto Giordano.
Tito Gobbi was an Italian operatic baritone with an international reputation.
Luigi Illica was an Italian librettist who wrote for Giacomo Puccini, Pietro Mascagni, Alfredo Catalani, Umberto Giordano, Baron Alberto Franchetti and other important Italian composers. His most famous opera libretti are those for La Bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and Andrea Chénier.
Magda Olivero, néeMaria Maddalena Olivero, was an Italian operatic soprano. Her career started in 1932 when she was 22, and spanned five decades establishing her "as an important link between the era of the verismo composers and the modern opera stage". She has been regarded as "one of the greatest singers of the twentieth century".
Ruggero Raimondi is an Italian bass-baritone opera singer who has also appeared in motion pictures.
Tosca is an opera by Giacomo Puccini.
Under the Sun of Rome is a 1948 Italian drama film directed by Renato Castellani. It was the first film of Castellani's Italian neorealism trilogy about poor people, followed by È primavera... in 1949 and Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or winner Two Cents Worth of Hope in 1952.
Everybody's Fine is a 1990 Italian drama film directed by Giuseppe Tornatore who co-wrote the screenplay with Tonino Guerra and Massimo De Rita.
The Flesh is a 1991 Italian drama film directed by Marco Ferreri. It was entered into the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.
Bregenzer Festspiele is a performing arts festival which is held every July and August in Bregenz in Vorarlberg (Austria).
Tosca Musk is a South African-Canadian filmmaker. She is an executive producer, producer, and director of feature films, television programs, and web content. Her work includes K. Bromberg's Driven, Rachel van Dyken's Matchmaker's Playbook, and her web series, Tiki Bar TV. Her Hallmark television movie, Holiday Engagement was the most-watched television movie on Hallmark. Tosca is the sister of entrepreneurs Elon and Kimbal Musk and daughter of Maye Musk.
Tosca is a 2001 French drama film directed by Benoît Jacquot based on the opera by Giacomo Puccini.
The Heart of O'Yama is a 1908 American silent short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith. It is based on the play La Tosca by Victorien Sardou.
Amore che vieni, amore che vai is a 2008 Italian crime-drama film directed by Daniele Costantini. It is based on the novel Un destino ridicolo by Fabrizio De André and Alessandro Gennari.
Tosca is a 1941 Italian historical drama film directed by Carl Koch and Jean Renoir and starring Imperio Argentina, Michel Simon and Rossano Brazzi. It is an adaptation of Victorien Sardou's play La Tosca and its subsequent opera version, Tosca, composed by Giacomo Puccini to a libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It was released in the United States as The Story of Tosca.
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