I love Operas, but I could never see one in person. I need subtitles like nobody’s business.
Tonight is another sleepless night so I decided to play Morrowind. When I got tired of just hearing my character’s feet tramping over the terrain, I turned on PBS. PBS is something I would probably die without (other than the internet).
Tonight was Great Performances. This episode was Tosca. I unfortunately came in at Act 3 so I can’t tell you much. I do recommend it for those that do enjoy the arts.
The act begins with Tosca’s love, Cavaradossi, awaiting execution that morning. A boy is singing in Roman dialect in the background as the soldiers inspect their guns for the execution. There’s an exchange between the jailor and Cavaradossi. The jailor walks off stage and Tosca enters. She tells him he’s free and there will be a mock execution and for him not to get up until she tells him to, but he has to make it look convincing when he falls.
The gunmen enter and line up with Cavaradossi against the wall. Tosca stands in the back in a black gown and watches. They fire. He falls. They walk away. Tosca goes to get him up, but the mock execution was a real execution. She is there crying over her body when someone else enters and tells of what she did to Scarpia, the villain.
Before Act 3, Tosca had an exchange with Scarpia and wound up killing him to save them both. They come to get her and they chase her. She runs up the castle steps with the soldiers close behind her. She yells that she and Scarpia will meet before God and jumps off the side of the castle to her death.
How unfair it is to have something like eternal love and happiness for the rest of your life but to have it taken away from you by force. Having to make a choice that stands at 50/50 that you will be dead shortly after to save the one you love would probably be the hardest ever. I guess when that love is already dead and gone, its easier for you to just end your own in hopes of meeting again in the next life.
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