Tosca opera in the park11/14/2022 As Scarpia is writing it she catches sight of a knife on the sup¬per table and as he is about to embrace her she plunges it into his heart.Ī shepherd boy is heard singing in the distance. Tosca asks for a safe-conduct permit for herself and Cavaradossi to be able to leave Rome. In order that the painter will be thought dead, Scarpia decides on a mock execution and instructs Spoletta to carry this out, stressing that it should be done as on a previous occasion. Tosca nods her agreement to Scarpia’s proposal, but wants her lover to be released immediately. He waits for instructions on what to do with Cavaradossi. Spoletta returns to report that Angelotti had killed him-self on being discovered. Scarpia offers Tosca the one way of ensur¬ing Cavaradossi's release she must give herself to him. Cavaradossi’s enthusiastic response to this provokes Scarpia to sentence him to death and he is led off. Sciarrone arrives with the news that the earlier report from Marengo was premature and that the French had gained a victory. Cavaradossi is brought back from the torture chamber. She too will give no information but as she hears Cavardossi’s cries of pain as he is being tortured, she reveals Angelotti’s hiding-place. The cantata has ended and Tosca enters Scarpia sends Cavaradossi off to another room for further interrogation, then turns his attention to Tosca. Scarpia calls Cavaradossi in to question him, but the painter denies all knowledge of Angelotti’s escape or whereabouts. Another agent, Spoletta, comes back from Cavaradossi's villa having found no trace of Angelotti, but appeases Scarpia with the news that he has arrested Cavaradossi. He gives one of his agents, Sciarrone, a note to pass to Tosca when she arrives for the cantata. Scarpia is still obsessed with his plans for Tosca and Cavaradossi. As the Te Deum begins Scarpia lays his plans to captivate Tosca and execute her lover. When she goes off to confront Cavaradossi and his sup¬posed lover at the villa, Scarpia sends his agents to follow her. Finding him gone she is again suspicious, and Scarpia uses the fan to further provoke her jealousy. Tosca returns to explain to Cavaradossi that as she is to perform in the celebratory cantata she will be unable to meet him that evening. In the open chapel he finds a fan dropped from the bundle of women’s clothing. On interrogating the Sacristan he connects Angelotti with the painter and the portrait of Angelotti’s sister. Scarpia, the chief of police, having been informed of Angelotti’s escape plan, enters the church. The Sacristan returns with news of victory in the Franco-Italian war, and as the choristers rush in he explains that the celebrations will include a cantata to be sung by Floria Tosca at the Palazzo Farnese and a Te Deum at the church. Returning to Angelotti he offers him the use of his villa and describes a hiding-place, half-way down a well in the garden.Ī can¬non shot announces that the escape has been discovered and Cavaradossi decides to lead Angelotti to the villa himself. The painting of Mary Magdalene also arouses Tosca’s jealousy but Cavaradossi hurries her out. Tosca, unreasonably jealous, accuses her lover of seeing another woman, but Cavaradossi calms her and they arrange to meet at his villa later that evening. He and Cavaradossi recog¬nize each other, but they are inter¬rupted by the arrival of the renowned singer Tosca, who is Cavaradossi’s lover, and Angelotti hides again. When the Sacristan leaves, Angelotti comes out of the chapel. The Sacristan, already disapproving of the painter, is further shocked by the fact that a woman who has recently been coming to the church alone to pray (in fact, Angelotti’s sister) has been the unwitting model for the painting. Cavaradossi, an artist, returns to continue work on his painting of Mary Magdalene. Using a key his sister had hid¬den for him, he lets him¬self into the family chapel where a disguise of women's clothing has been left. Midday.Īngelotti escaped from the Castle Sant’ Angelo where he was imprisoned for treason, and has fled to the empty church. International Friends of the Israeli Opera.Shlomi Shaban and the Camerata - Reflections.Saturday Morning Opera Highlights 16-17.
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