The Tosca is a result of many things in Giacomo Puccini's life. When he was young he was uninterested in music and due to persistence of his mother he was able to gain some interest in music. Luckily he was able to find his passion for the opera and he started to compose works of his own. He was ill received at first but he continued to work hard and he had become successful. The height of his success came when Puccini came up with three works that all received positive public approval. Tosca is one of the three plays that was greatly approved of by audiences. Giacomo Puccini was born to Albina Magi and Michele Puccini on December 22, 1858 in a town in Italy called Lucca. However when Puccini was only five years old his father had died. The …show more content…
Over time they became more popular and were performed in more opera's. All three were all received enthusiastically by the audiences. La Bohème is the first of the big three which first premiered February 1, 1896 in Turin. Tosca is the second to be premiered in January of 1900 in in Rome. The third is Madama Butterfly and was premiered at La Scala on February 17, 1904. According to the Synopsis of the Tosca on metopera.org the opera is a "melodrama about a volatile diva, a sadistic police chief, and an idealistic artist". This play deals with shabby and dirty subject matter that has "offended and thrilled" those who have watched it. It also gives the leading roles opportunities to impress the audience with the "directness and intensity of its score". The Tosca takes place over three acts with multiple roles for the actors to play. Some of the characters in this play are Floria Tosca, Mario Cavaradossi, Baron Scarpia, and Cesare Angelotti. Tosca is to be song with a soprano voice and is a female role. Cavaradossi is a male role to be sung by someone with a tenor voice. Scarpia is to be sung with a bariton voice. Finally Angelotti is to be sung by someone with a bass