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By Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924 De Bosio, Gianfranco Giacosa, Giuseppe, 1847-1906 Illica, Luigi, 1857-1919 Sardou, Victorien, 1831-1908 Kabaivanska, Raina, 1934- Domingo, Plácido, 1941- Milnes, Sherrill Luccardi, Giancarlo Ferrara, Mario Mariotti, Alfredo Grella, Bruno Medici, Domenico Domingo, Placido, 1965- Bartoletti, Bruno Ambrosian Singers New Philharmonia Orchestp2005., Deutsche Grammophon Call No: DVD Opera Puccini-Tosca-2011 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Floria Tosca and Mario Cavaradossi are in love and all they want is to be left alone. Baron Scarpia, however, wants Floria for his physical needs. He arrests Mario for aiding a fugitive and tells Tosca that she can save her lover by giving herself to him. She agrees, and he promises to set up a false execution of Mario. But Floria won't be had so easily and the kiss he has so longed for turns out to be the fatal kiss of a knife blade. But the treachery of Scarpia is revealed as the execution goes ahead and Mario is killed. Tosca vows to meet Scarpia before God as she leaps over the side of the building to her death.