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The opera is based on a 1887 French melodramatic play ''[[La Tosca]]'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Tosca], set in Rome in 1800, and written by French playwright Victorien Sardou (1831-1908) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorien_Sardou]
  
 
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Tosca [1] is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) [2] to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica [3] and Giuseppe Giacosa [4]. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900.

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The opera is based on a 1887 French melodramatic play La Tosca [5], set in Rome in 1800, and written by French playwright Victorien Sardou (1831-1908) [6]

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

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