Their jubilation is interrupted by Scarpia, the feared Chief of Police, who arrives with his men to search for Angelotti. The Sacristan tells the choir of the reported defeat of Napoleon at Marengo, to be celebrated with a High Mass. Soon after, a cannon shot from the prison announces Angelotti's escape and Cavaradossi hurries him away to hide in his country villa. Tosca jealously insists that the figure be made to look more like her dark-eyed self, and leaves the church. When the singer Floria Tosca, Cavaradossi's lover, arrives, she recognizes the blue-eyed Magdalena as none other than the Marchesa herself.

His portrait of Mary Magdalen is inspired by the Marchesa, whom he has observed in prayer. He is discovered by the painter Mario Cavaradossi, a liberal sympathizer, who is painting an altarpiece.

Noon.Īngelotti, a political prisoner, has escaped from Castel Sant'Angelo and takes cover in the church where his sister, the Marchesa d'Attavanti, has left him the key to the family chapel. Librettist: Giuseppe Giacosa, Luigi IllicaĬompany: Opera Philadelphia Performance DatesĪCT I: The Church of Sant'Andrea della Valle in Rome, 1800.

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