Tosca: An Overture - after Giacomo Puccini

By Wilson Pruitt

Puccini's Tosca, retold as a novel. Rome, June 1800: a fervent, jealous opera singer; the painter she loves, who has hidden a fugitive in his chapel; and Baron Scarpia, the chief of police, who will trade the painter's life for a single night with her. Across one afternoon, one evening, and the dawn that follows - a church, a lamplit interrogation, a forged safe-conduct, and a leap from the parapet of the Castel Sant'Angelo - Tosca: An Overture gives the fastest and cruelest of melodramas the inwardness only a novel can hold.

Part of the Overture Series - operas told as novels, written to be read in the weeks before you go, or while the music plays. Paced to Karajan's 1979 recording.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H4H2YJKQ
• ISBN13: 9798180448873
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 0.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"