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Susan Vandiver Nicassio

Tosca's Rome

The Play and the Opera in Historical Perspective

356 pages, 40 halftones, 12 line drawings, 1 table, 14 musical examples  6 x 9  © 1999

Cloth $55.00

ISBN: 9780226579719   Published January 2000

Paper $19.00

ISBN: 9780226579726   Published January 2002

Related links: Read a web feature: Ten Things You Didn't Know about Tosca.

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Historico-topographico-panoramic Inexactitudes
2. Sede Vacante: Rome without a Pope
3. The Painter's Rome
4. The Singer's Rome
5. The Policeman's Rome
6. Act One
7. Entr'Act
8. Act Two
9. Act Three
Appendix 1: Sardou's La Tosca and Puccini's Tosca
Appendix 2: Libretto-making
Appendix 3: Entertainments in Rome
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Subjects



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