Today is the 211th anniversary of the day the events in Puccini’s Tosca took place, June 17, 1800. (This detail is not mentioned in the libretto, but it is specified in the stage directions for Victorien Sardou’s play La Tosca: “La scène à Rome, le 17 juin 1800.” To celebrate this anniversary of this most protean of operas, La Cieca invites you, the cher public, to share anecdotes, memories and the usual YouTube clips relating to the Roman diva.
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