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| tosca fgo: Puccini's Tosca Michael Steen, 2013-02-20 Tosca's première in Rome in January 1900 was nearly disrupted by a terrorist threat to blow up Italy's King Umberto. Victorien Sardou had written the melodrama for the great actress Sarah Bernhardt. Giacomo Puccini's popular opera is a tale of sadism and brutality, torture, attempted rape, murder, an execution and two suicides. 'Realism' was in vogue: Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana had been a great success, as had Leoncavallo's Pagliacci. With sharp practice, the publisher Giulio Ricordi obtained 'Tosca' for Puccini, who had already composed Manon Lescaut and La Bohème. The story, set in the Napoleonic, era was ideal for Puccini, a chain-smoker who enjoyed women, shooting birds, and high-speed motor cars. A political prisoner seeks sanctuary in the church where prima donna Floria Tosca's lover Cavaradossi, a role associated with Pavarotti, is painting a picture of Mary Magdalen. In Va, Tosca! the police chief Scarpia fantasises about Tosca during a Te Deum celebrating Napoleon's victory. Tosca stabs Scarpia following the famous operatic aria, Vissi d'arte, immortalised by Maria Callas on stage and in the film produced by Franco Zeffirelli. Awaiting death before dawn in the Castel Sant'Angelo, Cavaradossi sings the well-known arias E lucevan le stelle and O dolci mani. Tosca's attempt to save him comes to nothing. Written by Michael Steen, author of the acclaimed The Lives and Times of the Great Composers, 'Short Guides to Great Operas' are concise, entertaining and easy to read. They are packed with useful information and informed opinion, helping to make you a truly knowledgeable opera-goer, and so maximising your enjoyment of a great musical experience. Other 'Short Guides to Great Operas' that you may enjoy include La bohème, Madama Butterfly and Carmen. |
| tosca fgo: Opera George Henry Hubert Lascelles Earl of Harewood, 2010 |
| tosca fgo: Scarpia Piers Paul Read, 2016-03-01 It is the late 18th century and Sicilian nobleman Vitello Scarpia finds himself penniless and in disgrace on the streets of Rome. After leaving his home in pursuit of a military career, his fiery passion has seen him expelled from the Spanish royal guard and left to seek his fortune in Italy; a fortune inseparably bound to the Pope, whose rule is put in question by the French Revolution. Scarpia enrolls in the papal army and is soon taken up by a countess eager to have a handsome young officer at her side. She introduces Scarpia into Roman society, and he is both enthralled and agitated by its mix of religiosity, sophistication, decadence, and intrigue. Then, on a mission to Venice, he meets the gifted, beautiful singer Floria Tosca. And as the armies of revolutionary France advance into Italy, and war and revolution engulf the whole peninsula, these two lives become entwined. Steeped in factual detail and exploring the lives--part historical, part fictional--of figures from Puccini's famous opera, Scarpia shines a light into dusty corridors of history and dark corners of the human soul. |
| tosca fgo: The Wrong Door Wendell Ricketts, 2008-06-15 The Wrong Door is the first English-language translation of the complete plays of Italian writer Natalia Ginzburg (1916-1991). Bringing together the eleven plays Ginzburg wrote between 1965 and the months before her death, this volume directs attention to Ginzburg's unique talent as a dramatist. Ginzburg's plays, like her novels and short stories, are incisive, finely tuned studies of family drama, of the breakdown of relations between the sexes, and of the tribulations of Italian domestic life. The plays showcase Ginzburg's fearless social commentary, her stark and darkly comic observations of Italian life, and her prescient analyses of the socio-economic changes that have transformed modern Italy. Along the way, Ginzburg creates memorable female characters in a series of fascinating roles. In this fluent and faithful translation, Wendell Ricketts highlights Ginzburg's scalpel-sharp dialogue and lays bare the existential absurdities that lie at the heart of her plays. Including an introduction by the translator and two essays by Ginzburg on her approach to the theatre, The Wrong Door adds a new dimension to the literary portrait of one of Italy's most significant modernist writers. |
| tosca fgo: Great Operas Michael Steen, 2012-11-01 With four famous operas each from Mozart, Verdi and Puccini, and two each from Rossini and Donizetti, there is a feast of information. Here are short guides to The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni; to the splendour of Aïda, the heart-breaking La Traviata; the drama of Tosca. The range is very broad. There is Wagner's great love story Tristan und Isolde; there is Johann Strauss's light comedy Die Fledermaus. On the way you can be briefed about such favourites as Handel's Giulio Cesare, Bizet's Carmen, Gounod's Faust, Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and Britten's Peter Grimes. With plot summaries, composer biographies, observations on musical points of interest and background on the historical and cultural context of each opera, every one of these guides will enhance your appreciation and enjoyment and help you discuss the work and the performance with your fellow opera-goers. Steen shares his expert knowledge with a lightness of touch that makes each guide a pleasure to read. Witty, informative and beautifully presented, Great Operas is an indispensable reference guide for both seasoned opera-goers and those enjoying opera for the first time. |
| tosca fgo: Heed the Dark Light Duncan Hoode, 2019-01-14 In a world divided by virtual sector walls after the dark web hack that caused the worldwide IoT meltdown, a group of people and magical beings who live in a parallel universe plan to reunite the globe. They will fight the dark force threatening to control the world through sophisticated artificial intelligence algorithms. Years in the future, two young elite sproggers (recruits) of the most powerful military compound in the largest smart city in the U.S. go missing in a failed translocation operation. They land in an ancient crypt in Italy, to discover they’re now among a small clan of magical beings who want to eradicate the evil force behind the artificial intelligence operating system that controls nearly the whole world through algorithms. The race is on to find the sproggers before the unknown forces do. |
| tosca fgo: Prisoner's Dilemma William Poundstone, 2011-05-25 A masterful work of science writing that’s both a fascinating biography of von Neumann, the Hungarian exile whose mathematical theories were building blocks for the A-bomb and the digital computer, and a brilliant social history of game theory and its role in the Cold War and nuclear arms race (San Francisco Chronicle). Should you watch public television without pledging?...Exceed the posted speed limit?...Hop a subway turnstile without paying? These questions illustrate the so-called prisoner's dilemma, a social puzzle that we all face every day. Though the answers may seem simple, their profound implications make the prisoner's dilemma one of the great unifying concepts of science. Watching players bluff in a poker game inspired John von Neumann—father of the modern computer and one of the sharpest minds of the century—to construct game theory, a mathematical study of conflict and deception. Game theory was readily embraced at the RAND Corporation, the archetypical think tank charged with formulating military strategy for the atomic age, and in 1950 two RAND scientists made a momentous discovery. Called the prisoner's dilemma, it is a disturbing and mind-bending game where two or more people may betray the common good for individual gain. Introduced shortly after the Soviet Union acquired the atomic bomb, the prisoner's dilemma quickly became a popular allegory of the nuclear arms race. Intellectuals such as von Neumann and Bertrand Russell joined military and political leaders in rallying to the preventive war movement, which advocated a nuclear first strike against the Soviet Union. Though the Truman administration rejected preventive war the United States entered into an arms race with the Soviets and game theory developed into a controversial tool of public policy—alternately accused of justifying arms races and touted as the only hope of preventing them. Prisoner's Dilemma is the incisive story of a revolutionary idea that has been hailed as a landmark of twentieth-century thought. |
| tosca fgo: Corrupt Fire Marie Johnston, 2022-07-12 One minute the angel Tosca is a respected enforcer having a drink with someone she considers an ally. The next minute she wakes up beside a dead body, red-handed and blackballed. Now enforcers she used to call friends are calling her a murderer. When they dredge up the past she’s so carefully buried, she’ll only look guiltier. Her only hope for clearing her name is escaping to Earth—and seeking refuge in the one place she vowed never to set foot in again. One minute the angel Bronx is a frustrated warrior railing at the corruption that keeps him from doing his job. The next minute he’s got free rein to hunt the bane of his existence. The cute but infuriating enforcer has been questioning his every move and tattling to her crooked senator friends. But now that Tosca is on the run, there’s nowhere on Earth he won’t follow—even if it takes him smack into a nest of forgotten angels and unchecked demons who will do anything to stay that way. Except once he finds Tosca, he doesn’t know what to do with her. His gut tells him she’s innocent, but he’ll have to gain her trust to learn who framed her and why. Yet Tosca has no intention of letting any male dictate her fate again, even one who stars nightly in her dreams. Together they could root out the corruption bedeviling their realm—but divided they will fall prey to a determined enemy adept at killing enforcers and warriors alike. |
| tosca fgo: Tosca, the Cat Lady Gina Lagorio, 2009 Winner of the prestigious Viareggio Literary Prize in 1984, this work chronicles the solitary life of Tosca, who spends her senior years among the offspring of her dearly departed cat. |
| tosca fgo: On Voice Walter Bernhart, Lawrence Kramer, 2014-04-20 The essays collected here raise a simple but rarely asked question: just what, exactly, is voice? From this founding question, many others proliferate: Is voice an animal category, as Aristotle thought? Or is it distinctively human? Is it essentially related to language? To music? To song and singing? Is it a mark of presence or of absence? Is it a kind of object? How is our sense of voice affected by the development of recording technology? The authors in this volume approach such questions primarily by turning away from a general idea of voice and instead investigating what can be learned by attending to the qualities and acts of particular voices. The range is wide: from Poe’s “Leigeia” to Woolf’s The Waves, from Jussi Björling to Waltraud Meier, from song to oratorio to opera and beyond. Throughout, consistent with the volume’s origin in papers delivered at the eighth biennial meeting of the International Association for Word and Music Studies, the role of voice in joining or separating words and music is paramount. These studies address key topics in musicology, literary criticism, philosophy, aesthetics, and performance studies, and will also appeal to practicing musicians. |
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| tosca fgo: Vancouver Short Stories Carole Gerson, 1985 In a sense, we haven’t got an identity until somebody tells our story. The fiction makes us real.--Robert Kroetsch in Creation Spanning a period of nearly eighty years, the stories in this collection present the experience of living in Vancouver as filtered through the imagination of many of Canada’s most famous writers. The romantic attitude of some of the early writers is balanced by the more sombre version of many later authors, some of whom show the city as a place of loneliness and corruption. In tone, the stories range from the grimness of Dorothy Livesay’s account of Depression misery, to the irony of Ethel Wilson’s narrative of an evening garden party, to the playfulness of George Bowering’s ellipticla story of student life. Other well-known atuhors include Pauline Johnson, Emily Carr, Malcolm Lowry, Audrey Thomas, Alice Munro, and Joy Kogawa--as well as some who have been undeservedly consigned to obscurity--M.A. Grainger, Bertrand Sinclair, Jean Burton, and William McConnell. The more prolific among the younger writers--Frances Duncan, Cynthia Flood, and Kevin Roberts--are in the process of achieving national recognition. The stories evoke a strong sense of place, of Vancouver’s essential relation to its natural setting--forest, mountains, and sea--and its existence as a modern urban centre. Individual episodes recall the great fire of 1886, turn-of-the-century loggers on Cordova Street, rum-running in the twenties, the internment of Japanese-Canadians after Pearl Harbor, the hippie era, and the modern sub-culture of beer parlours and drugs. Particular locales include downtown streets, the east end, the North Shore, U.B.C, Stanley Park, Kitsilano, and the Vancouver Aquarium. Stories of the city’s social and cultural life describe the process of growing up and growing old, family and marital matters, the Chinese community, and the legends and reality of Native Americans. Vancouver Short Stories indicates some of the ways that a particular locality has been transformed into art that, in turn, enriches our understanding of its reality and enhances our sense of identity. |
| tosca fgo: Tosca. Piano-vocal Score. Italian and English Giacomo Puccini, 2023 |
| tosca fgo: La rondine ; Tosca ; Il trittico ; Le villi Giacomo Puccini, 1993 |
| tosca fgo: STOICEACHAS KEVIN J. ALLEN, Ar mhaith leat foghlaim conas do chuid mothúchán a bhainistiú agus eagla agus imní a shárú? Ar mhaith leat intinn láidir athléimneach a fhorbairt? Ar mhaith leat a fháil amach an féidir le teagasc na bhfealsúnaí móra cabhrú leat i do dhúshláin laethúla? Seo an leabhar a bhí á lorg agat! Léigh níos mó ..... Is leabhar é Stoicism: Guide to Managing Emotions, Overcoming Fear and Developing Wisdom and Calm in Modern Life a chabhróidh leat forbairt a dhéanamh ar na scileanna fealsúnachta a theastaíonn chun aghaidh a thabhairt ar dhúshláin an tsaoil le grit agus diongbháilteacht. Trí theagasc fealsúna móra Stoic mar Marcus Aurelius agus Epictetus a iniúchadh, foghlaimeoidh tú conas mothúcháin a bhainistiú, eagla a shárú, agus eagna agus socair a fhorbairt i do shaol laethúil. Tá fealsúnacht an Stoiceachais bunaithe ar an smaoineamh go bhfuilimid freagrach as ár ngníomhartha agus as ár smaointe, agus go gcaithfimid foghlaim chun ár mothúcháin a rialú d'fhonn maireachtáil go suáilceach. Leis an leabhar seo, foghlaimeoidh tú chun machnamh fealsúnachta a chleachtadh agus intinn láidir athléimneach a fhorbairt, in ann aghaidh a thabhairt ar dhúshláin an tsaoil le equanimity. Taobh istigh den leabhar gheobhaidh tú amach : · Teicnící fealsúnachta an stoiceachais chun aghaidh a thabhairt ar dhúshláin an tsaoil le greim agus le diongbháilteacht. · Conas intinn láidir athléimneach a fhorbairt le cleachtadh an stoiceachas. · Conas mothúcháin a bhainistiú, eagla a shárú agus eagna agus suaimhneas a fhorbairt i saol an lae inniu. · Déan iniúchadh ar theagasc fealsúna móra Stoic ar nós Marcus Aurelius agus Epictetus agus faigh amach conas iad a chur i bhfeidhm ar do shaol laethúil. · Foghlaimeoidh tú chun machnamh fealsúnachta a chleachtadh agus intinn láidir athléimneach a fhorbairt. · Foghlaimeoidh tú chun do chuid mothúchán a smachtú agus maireachtáil go suáilceach le fealsúnacht an Stoiceachas. · Beidh taithí agat ar an tsíoraíocht agus ar an tsíocháin istigh le teagasc praiticiúil agus infheidhme an leabhair. Má tá tú ag lorg bealach chun mothúcháin a bhainistiú, eagla a shárú agus eagna agus suaimhneas a fhorbairt i do shaol, tá an leabhar seo ar stoiceachas foirfe duit. Ná fan níos faide, CEANNAIGH INNIU LE CLICEÁIL AGUS TOSAIGH DO THURAS CHUN EAGNA AGUS SERENITY! |
| tosca fgo: The Little Book of Welsh Culture Mark Rees, 2016-08-01 Did you know? Richard Burton claimed that he would rather have played rugby for Wales at Cardiff Arms Park than Hamlet at the Old Vic. Local rivalries between choirs in the 'land of song' used to be so fierce that fights would break out following singing competitions. Roald Dahl was an RAF fighter pilot during the Second World War, and a near-death crash landing inspired his first published work. The Little Book of Welsh Culture is a fast-paced, fact-filled journey through the cultural heritage of Wales, crammed full of myths, traditions and personalities. Experience the country's immense artistic legacy as never before, from the medieval legends surrounding King Arthur and The Mabinogion to its modern-day transformation into a thriving filming location for big-screen blockbusters. Discover the truth behind the ancient druidic rituals of the National Eisteddfod, separate the facts from the fiction that surround Dylan Thomas' infamous lifestyle, and learn how Wales successfully regenerated the Doctor Who franchise – and unearth some fascinating secrets and hidden gems along the way. |
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Tosca - Wikipedia
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.
Tosca | Puccini’s Tragic Opera of Love & Betrayal | Britannica
Tosca, opera in three acts by Italian composer Giacomo Puccini (Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa) that premiered at the Costanzi Theatre in Rome on January 14, 1900. …
Menu - Tosca - Italian Restaurant in Hingham, MA
Menu for Tosca in Hingham, MA. Explore latest menu with photos and reviews.
Tosca Synopsis: The Story of Puccini's Famous Opera
Tosca is an opera composed by Giacomo Puccini (composer of Edgar, La Bohème, and Turandot) that premiered on January 14, 1990 at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome. The opera …
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Tosca - The Opera 101
Luckily it still works as seen through 21st Century eyes because at its core, Tosca is a tale of romance over politics; featuring a heroic painter, a despicable ruler and an opera superstar, …
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Tosca is all about creating the perfect setting for our guests to experience fine Italian cuisine and exceptional service in a relaxed, beautiful space. Come in, sit back and savor delicious, …
Discover Puccini's Tosca | The Story of Tosca & More | ENO
With Puccini ‘s richly romantic score, it is one of the world’s most loved operas. A tragic story of passion and jealousy, it tells the story of the tempestuous opera singer Floria Tosca, as she …
TOSCA - Updated June 2025 - 183 Photos & 290 Reviews - Yelp
Tosca is literally the best higher end restaurant on the South Shore. Nobody comes close. I have been coming here for 24 years and the food and service are always excellent. Great pizza, …
Tosca Home - Tosca - Italian Restaurant in Hingham, MA
Tosca in Hingham, MA. Call us at (781) 740-0080. Check out our location and hours, and latest menu with photos and reviews.
Tosca - Wikipedia
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.
Tosca | Puccini’s Tragic Opera of Love & Betrayal | Britannica
Tosca, opera in three acts by Italian composer Giacomo Puccini (Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa) that premiered at the Costanzi Theatre in Rome on January 14, 1900. …
Menu - Tosca - Italian Restaurant in Hingham, MA
Menu for Tosca in Hingham, MA. Explore latest menu with photos and reviews.
Tosca Synopsis: The Story of Puccini's Famous Opera
Tosca is an opera composed by Giacomo Puccini (composer of Edgar, La Bohème, and Turandot) that premiered on January 14, 1990 at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome. The opera …
Tosca Homepage | Reusable Packaging for Supply Chains
Tosca is a global leader in reusable plastic packaging and performance pooling solutions, purpose-built for our customers to eliminate food, labor, and transportation waste and improve …
Tosca - The Opera 101
Luckily it still works as seen through 21st Century eyes because at its core, Tosca is a tale of romance over politics; featuring a heroic painter, a despicable ruler and an opera superstar, …
Ristorante Tosca
Tosca is all about creating the perfect setting for our guests to experience fine Italian cuisine and exceptional service in a relaxed, beautiful space. Come in, sit back and savor delicious, …
Discover Puccini's Tosca | The Story of Tosca & More | ENO
With Puccini ‘s richly romantic score, it is one of the world’s most loved operas. A tragic story of passion and jealousy, it tells the story of the tempestuous opera singer Floria Tosca, as she …
TOSCA - Updated June 2025 - 183 Photos & 290 Reviews - Yelp
Tosca is literally the best higher end restaurant on the South Shore. Nobody comes close. I have been coming here for 24 years and the food and service are always excellent. Great pizza, …
