Act 3<\/p>\n<\/a>It’s the subtitles that do it for me, really.\u00a0 I especially like this little exchange between Scarpia and Tosca:<\/p>\n
Sccarpia: “You’re nothing like some girls who pose for paintings while having affairs with the painters and eating ice cream!”<\/p>\n
Tosca: “What!\u00a0 Love affairs!\u00a0 Ice cream!”<\/p>\n
It’s hard to go past that.<\/p>\n
Having sung in the chorus of Tosca last year, and thus heard the entire thing through exactly twice, I was surprised by how many bits of the music I didn’t just recognise but also remembered well enough to recognise where they had been cut.\u00a0 (The chorus bits, unsurprisingly, got cut quite a lot.) Puccini doesn’t really do set arias – everything runs together into a single musical conversation, which for me, at least, makes individual sections harder to remember.\u00a0 Though apparently I remembered just about every note that came out of Scarpia’s mouth, particularly in Act 1.\u00a0 Well, he is a spectacularly villainous sort of villain – just as a bass should be…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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