He then offers to spare her lover if Tosca will yield to his sexual advances.
Scarpia arrests Cavaradossi and sentences him to death in the Castel Sant'Angelo.
By the end of the play, all three are dead. Its melodramatic plot centers on Floria Tosca, a celebrated opera singer her lover, Mario Cavaradossi, an artist and Napoleon sympathiser and Baron Scarpia, Rome's ruthless Regent of Police. The action takes place over an eighteen-hour period, ending at dawn on 18 June 1800. La Tosca is set in Rome on 17 June 1800 following the French victory in the Battle of Marengo. There have been several other adaptations of the play including two for the Japanese theatre and an English burlesque, Tra-La-La Tosca (all of which premiered in the 1890s) as well as several film versions. The play itself had dropped from the standard theatrical repertoire by the mid-1920s, but its operatic adaptation, Giacomo Puccini's Tosca, has achieved enduring popularity. Despite negative reviews from the Paris critics at the opening night, it became one of Sardou's most successful plays and was toured by Bernhardt throughout the world in the years following its premiere. It was first performed on 24 November 1887 at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin in Paris, with Sarah Bernhardt in the title role. La Tosca is a five- act drama by the 19th-century French playwright Victorien Sardou.
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