The shocked Tosca begs him to release Cavaradossi. Tosca is alone with Scarpia, who confesses that he has long been watching her and that she is the object of his desire. The painter is sentenced to death.ġ2 midnight. Cavaradossi jeers at Scarpia, rejoicing at his defeat. Sciarrone, one of Scarpia’s thugs, brings news of the defeat suffered by the regime’s forces. Under great pressure, Tosca breaks down and betrays the secret: Cavaradossi hid Angelotti in a well in the garden. Blackmailing Tosca with her lover’s suffering, Scarpia tries to get her to tell him where the escaped prisoner is hiding. Her concert having ended, Tosca arrives to find Cavaradossi being led away for interrogation and torture. Asked if he helped Angelotti, he denies it and points out the lack of any evidence.ĩ p.m. In another part of the building, Tosca’s concert begins, broadcast on television. Spoletta arrives and gives Scarpia a report on the search at Cavaradossi’s villa: he failed to find the fugitive, but he arrested the painter. At the police headquarters in Palazzo Farnese, Scarpia is thinking about Tosca. He expresses his desire to have Cavaradossi executed before taking Tosca for himself.Ĩ p.m. When the jealous Tosca runs from the church to have it out with her lover at his villa, Scarpia orders that she be followed. He is clearly trying to win her favour and suggests that Cavaradossi is having an affair with Countess Attavanti.
Tosca returns, looking for Cavaradossi, but instead meets Scarpia. He searches the church for the runaway prisoner among many traces of Angelotti’s presence he finds a fan belonging to Countess Attavanti, Angelotti’s sister, who most likely helped her brother to hide.ġ1:30 a.m. Suddenly, Scarpia, Rome’s police prefect, arrives with his men. Orders are given to prepare for the Te Deum and a special evening concert at which Tosca is to sing. The sacristan brings news of the alleged victory of the regime’s troops over the revolutionary forces. Cavaradossi convinces her of his love and sends her away, then he and Angelotti leave the church.ġ1 a.m. Seeing the painter’s confusion, Tosca suspects him of cheating on her. Just then, however, the painter’s jealous lover, famous singer Floria Tosca, arrives. Thinking he is alone, Angelotti steps out and bumps into Cavaradossi, who promises to help him. The sacristan helps the painter get set up, then leaves. He does not know that Cesare Angelotti, an escaped prisoner, is hiding in the church. Mario Cavaradossi, a painter, is working in a historical chapel, renovating a fresco depicting Mary Magdalene.
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