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Tosca : An Overture - after Giacomo Puccini
Overview
Puccini's Tosca, retold as a novel. Rome, June 1800: a fervent, jealous opera singer; the painter she loves, who has hidden a fugitive in his chapel; and Baron Scarpia, the chief of police, who will trade the painter's life for a single night with her. Across one afternoon, one evening, and the dawn that follows - a church, a lamplit interrogation, a forged safe-conduct, and a leap from the parapet of the Castel Sant'Angelo - Tosca: An Overture gives the fastest and cruelest of melodramas the inwardness only a novel can hold. Part of the Overture Series - operas told as novels, written to be read in the weeks before you go, or while the music plays. Paced to Karajan's 1979 recording.
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- ISBN-13: 9798180448873
- ISBN-10: 9798180448873
- Publisher: Independently Published
- Publish Date: June 2026
- Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.28 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.27 pounds
- Page Count: 118
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