Hear the Metropolitan Opera's recent production of "Tosca," Puccini's intense, highly successful melodrama, on Saturday at 1 p.m. on Classical IPR.
The opera is set in 1800s Rome as the city weathers conflict between Napoleon's army and Austria's.
It's based on a play by Victorien Sardou about a painter and his jealous beloved, Tosca, and their run-ins with a brutal police chief.
Angela Gheorghiu is Tosca, Matthew Polenzani is Cavaradossi and Domingo Hindoyan conducts.
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