La Tosca: Drame en cinq actes

by Victorien Sardou

"La Tosca: Drame en cinq actes" by Victorien Sardou is a five-act drama first performed in 1887. Set in Rome over eighteen hours in June 1800, the play follows celebrated opera singer Floria Tosca, her lover Mario Cavaradossi, and the ruthless Baron Scarpia in a deadly game of passion and politics. When Scarpia arrests Cavaradossi and demands Tosca submit to him in exchange for her lover's life, she makes a fateful choice that seals all their destinies.