Tickets for Tosca in Arena of Verona!

Opera in the sixth and final stage from August 18, 2012, Tosca by Giacomo Puccini.

Performances on 22, 25, August 29 and September 1st

The main characters

The story takes place in Rome in June nineteenth.

Floria Tosca: famous singer
Mario Cavaradossi: Painter, Tosca's lover
Scarpia Baron: Chief of Police in Rome
Cesare Angelotti:Political prisoner who has escaped from the Castel Sant'Angelo prison
Spoletta: Policeman

The synopsis

Tosca, a famous opera singer and painter Mario Cavaradossi were lovers. The story takes place in Rome of the popes of the early 800s, when Napoleon was conquering Europe.
In Rome there were conspirators against the power of the Popes who were persecuted by the police of course controlled by the Pontifical Scarpia, Tosca, and of which he knew was in love.
One of them, Angelotti, who was arrested by the Papal police, he managed to escape and was helped by Mario Cavaradossi in nascondedersi in his villa outside Rome.
Scarpia had been put in search Evasio and some clues led him to suspect that arrests of Mario Cavaradossi, while also proposing to try to convince him to indulge in Tosca.
Torture in the presence of Mario Cavaradossi Tosca for the purpose of them to reveal the hiding place of Angelotti and cruelly makes listening to the cries of pain of Mario.
Tosca Scarpia promises to indulge provided that they cease the torture to be keeping an eye on Mario and issued a safe conduct to escape with him.
Pretends to accept Scarpia, and it puts an end to the torture cell riaccompagnare Mario in giving order to be shot, however, that the next morning and Tosca and instead believe that it would be a mock execution with blank bullets.
Scarpia promises Tosca to believe, but before being allowed kills him, convinced that the order of mock execution of Scarpia has not acted on and may therefore escape with safe conduct (fake) that Scarpia has signed before being killed by her.
Full of joy he goes to the cell of Mario and tells him that the shooting was simulated and that both would flee and that has killed Scarpia. Unfortunately, as Scarpia had predetermined before his death, the shooting is for real and Mario is killed by firing squad.
The illusion ceases, Tosca discovers him and is desperate. The soldiers and employees of Scarpia, trovatone the corpse, trying to arrest Tosca throws herself from the tower instead of Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome, where he was imprisoned and shot Mario, committing suicide.