Malcolm Walker has provided a discography. There are contributions from the celebrated singer and producer of Tosca Tito Gobbi, and two other musicologists, Roger Parker and William Ashbrook. A subsidiary aim of the book is to present the opinions, positive and negative, that have been expressed by various critics about the opera since its first production in 1900. It also describes the genesis of the work (quoting wherever appropriate, Puccini's own remarks about it), its first production and early reception. Set in Rome at the time of Napoleon’s invasion of Italy, Tosca is a story of love, lust, murder, and political intrigue. It compares Puccini's libretto with Sardou's play La Tosca, analyses the close-knit structure of the work and examines salient points in the music. Puccini’s opera Tosca is a melodrama in three acts set to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Guiseppe Giacosa and based on Victorien Sardou’s 1887 French-language drama, La Tosca. It includes a synopsis of the plot, with indications of the themes and motifs used in it, and discusses the style of the opera, Tosca being a typical example of Italian naturalism in operas, verismo.

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