Word: scarpia
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...operatic emotions. Jealous first, then playful, loving completely Mario Cavaradossi, she brings him thus unwillingly into a political trap laid by Chief of Police Antonio Scotti, sleekest of nil Searpias, who wants the lady for himself. The second act will come with his melodramatic crescendoes. Tosca will surrender and Scarpia will supposedly draw up his pardon while Tosca's hand, fumbling, despairing, will find the carving knife on a supper table. She will stab him, steal away hugger-mugger to the condemned Cavaradossi. But Scarpia will have double-crossed her as he has hundreds of performances before, will have served...
...Manhattan. Having opened splendidly with La Gioconda (during which the spotlight played quite properly upon the boxholders instead of the stars), the Metropolitan (TIME, Nov. 2) went on with its season. Maria Jeritza as Tosca, lying in a lovely heap upon the floor of Scarpia's apartments, delivered a moving and irrelevant commentary upon love and art; Mme. A Ida (wife of Giulio Gatti-Casizza) appeared in La Bohème; Aida was given in Brooklyn...
...emotional scene was witnessed at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, the other evening. Officially it was a special performance of La Tosca given to celebrate Antonio Scotti's 25th season with the company. Jeritza was Tosca; Fleta, Cavaradossi; and Scotti himself, the villain Scarpia. It was in this role that he sang his first American performance on December...
...speeches and gift presentations would take place. The curtain rose again; and now was seen Scotti in evening clothes, surrounded by all the principals of the Metropolitan Opera Company. An uproar! People shouted, clapped their hands. In the boxes sat two primadonnas who had sung Tosca to Scotti's Scarpia, Geraldine Farrar and Marcella Sembrich. They applauded with memories of many a triumphal performance...
German currency is worth almost nothing yet $12 in American money was paid for good seats at the National Opera in Berlin when Mattia Battistini, the famous Italian baritone, now over 60, made his only appearance of the season. He sang the role of Scarpia in Tosca...