GENRE Melodramma in tre atti
LIBRETTO Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, after Victorien Sardou, La Tosca
FIRST PERFORMED Teatro Constanzi, Rome, 14 January 1900
NOTES

                                                

 Tosca was in gestation for some eleven years, and began with Puccini’s interest in Sardou’s play in 1889 and Illica’s work on the libretto in 1891. Despite Giulio Ricordi’s insistence that Puccini improve the final act, the score remained relatively unchanged from the first publication in late 1899 to the third version in 1909. It remains the only opera in Puccini’s œuvre with which he seemed satisfied at its premiere.


PUBLICATION TITLE Tosca Tosca Title Page 153 kB
VERSION Second version
TYPE Italian piano and vocal score
EDITION Riduzione per canto e pianoforte di Carlo Carignani
PUBLISHER G. Ricordi & C.
DATE 1899
PLATE NUMBER 103050
RICORDI STAMP 4.1900
VOLUME 310 pp.
HOPKINSON NUMBER 5B
GIFT OF John F. Flagg


PUBLICATION TITLE Tosca Tosca Title Page 141 kB
VERSION Second version
TYPE Italian piano and vocal score
EDITION Riduzione per canto e pianoforte di Carlo Carignani
PUBLISHER G. Ricordi & C.
DATE 1899
PLATE NUMBER 103050
RICORDI STAMP 6.1934
VOLUME 310 pp.
HOPKINSON NUMBER 5B (b) (variant title page)


PUBLICATION TITLE Tosca Tosca Title Page 279 kB
VERSION Second version
TYPE German piano and vocal score
EDITION Klavierauszug mit Text von Carlo Carignani. Deutsch von Max Kalbeck.
PUBLISHER G. Ricordi & C.
DATE 1901
PLATE NUMBER 103050
RICORDI STAMP 5.1928
VOLUME 326 pp.
HOPKINSON NUMBER 5B (d)


PUBLICATION TITLE Tosca Tosca Title Page 136 kB
VERSION Second version
TYPE English-Italian piano and vocal score
EDITION English version by W. Beatty-Kingston
PUBLISHER G. Ricordi & C. (New York)
DATE 1905
PLATE NUMBER 109916
RICORDI STAMP None
VOLUME 335 pp.
HOPKINSON NUMBER 5B (h)

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