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== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
== Performance history in South Africa ==
 
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1971: Staged by [[PACT]] in the [[Aula]] in Pretoria and the [[Civic Theatre]] in Johannesburg,
  
  
 
== Sources ==
 
== Sources ==
 
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[[PACT]] theatre programme, 1971.
  
  

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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.

The original text

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]

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Performance history in South Africa

1971: Staged by PACT in the Aula in Pretoria and the Civic Theatre in Johannesburg,


Sources

PACT theatre programme, 1971.


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