Puccini Tosca Scarpia Tosca, with Michael Aspinall, the Surprising Soprano
The heroine of Puccini s Tosca is a prima donna. In this Act 2 scene, her lover, Mario Cavaradossi, is being tortured offstage by the Rome police chief, Baron Scarpia, so as to reveal the whereabouts of an escaped political prisoner called Angelotti. Tosca cannot bear her lover s anguished cries, so she reveals to Scarpia that Angelotti is hiding in the well of her garden. Scarpia has lustful designs on Tosca and tells her that he will only release Cavarodossi if she gives herself to him. In horrified de
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