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...intercom. (Scarpia: "Let's turn up the sound!") Having killed Comrade Scarpia (Baritone William Chapman), Tosca hopes to spring her lover from jail and cries: "Once we are at the airport . . . we'll be free." In the end, instead of hurling herself off the battlements of Castel Sant' Angelo, Tosca stabs herself...
...friendship with France. But how could they be friendly toward France so long as the war in Algeria fans fanatical Arab hatred, gives France the excuse to garrison 80,000 French troops in Morocco, 30,000 in Tunisia, and keeps the top Algerian rebel leaders in Paris' Santé prison...
...girl eventually uncovered some evidence that the composer's great-grandfather was a Scot named Izett-a handy connection, as Lucia is laid in Scotland. ¶ Why did Puccini change the church in Tosca? In the original play, La Tosca, by Yictorien Sardou, it was Rome's Sant' Andrea al Quirinale, an edifice still set amid open spaces through which the revolutionary Angelotti could have escaped; in the opera, Puccini's church (Sant' Andrea della Valle) is in a thickly built-up part of Rome, where the escape seems less likely. So far, nobody...
Last month workmen in Borgo San Sepolcro were remodeling a building that was, in Piero's time, the church of Sant' Agostino, but has since been turned into a movie theater and the home of the local symphony. While repairing a wall in what was once the apse, a workman touched a loose piece of plaster (spread on by Franciscan nuns who took over the church in the 16th century); it broke away under his hand. Beneath the plaster was a life-sized painting of a haloed young man, fair-haired with wide, topaz eyes. One look...
...writer living in Paris, offers the richer literary experience. The selections range from a Stendhal love story, as intricate as a Japanese tea ceremony, to a fragment of Swiftian satire by Baudelaire on the suicide of a Parisian street urchin. In between, Balzac, Zola and Guy de Maupas sant lash at the favorite whipping boy of French letters, the French middle class. Best yarns in the book are stories of simple nobodies by Gustave Flaubert and Joris-Karl Huysmans...