Tosca Giacomo Puccini
The work
Puccini believed that Sardou’s La Tosca contained all the ingredients of great drama
uccini’s had to be a hit, for reasons both personal and political. By 1900 the Italian composer had a reputation to uphold after the success of and then , but also bore the weight of a whole nation’s hopes on his shoulders. Now aged 86, the great Giuseppe Verdi was approaching the end of his life and critics were hailing Puccini as
