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  • The opera Tosca tells the story of the singer Floria Tosca, her artist lover Mario Cavaradossi, and the evil Chief of Police Baron Scarpia in 18th century Rome.
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    Toscaguide Opera

    S E A R I N G PA SS I O N , G R I S LY V I O L E N C E , A N D A J E A LO US S O PR A N O : THE WORK:
    No story is more operatic than Tosca, and no opera is more thrillingly TOSCA

    dramatic than Puccini’s classic. The opera premiered in , but the riveting An opera in three acts, sung in Italian

    story first appeared thirteen years before as a play by the French author Music by Giacomo Puccini
    Victorien Sardou. With the smoldering actress Sarah Bernhardt in the title Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and
    role, Sardou’s work toured Europe in a blaze of glory. Nevertheless, the Luigi Illica
    play would likely have fallen into obscurity had the young Italian composer Based on the play La Tosca by
    Giacomo Puccini not seen (and been deeply moved by) Bernhardt’s blistering Victorien Sardou
    performance. With the help of his frequent collaborators Giuseppe Giacosa First performed January 14,
    and Luigi Illica, Puccini set about adapting Sardou’s drama for the opera at

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    The Oxford Handbook of Decadence ,

    Table of contents :
    Cover
    The Oxford Handbook of Decadence
    Copyright
    Dedication
    Contents
    Acknowledgments
    Contributors
    Introduction: Decadence, Culture, and Society
    PART I. PERIODS
    1. Classical Antiquity: Unlikely Decadent Prototypes in Republican Rome
    2. Ages of Empire: Pinnacles of Decline
    3. Fin de Siècle, Gilded Age, or Belle Époque: Different Endings to the Same Century
    4. The Interwar Period: Legacies of Decadence
    5. Contemporary Contexts: Decadence Today and Tomorrow
    PART II. PLACES
    6. France: The Rise of Modern Decadence
    7. Belgium: Decadent Land, Barbarian Language
    8. Britain and Ireland: Decadence beyond London
    9. Italy: Decadent Dichotomies in a Disruptive Age
    Germany: Decadence from the Wilhelmine Empire to the Weimar Republic
    Nordic Cultures: From Wilderness to Metropolitan Decadence
    Eastern Europe: The “New People” of Decadence
    Turkey: Ottoman Tanzimat and the Decadence of Empire
    Japan: Decadence and Japonisme
    PART

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    Oriental Mirages: Stereotypes and Identity Creation in the Ancient World X,

    Table of contents :
    Preface
    Contents
    Björn Forsén / Antti Lampinen: Barbarians and Empire Greek and Roman Conceptions of the East
    Joseph Skinner: ‘Greeks in the Making?’ Early Greek Mercenary Service, Stereotypes and Identity-Formation
    Kostas Vlassopoulos: The vild Repertoire and its Visual Stereotypes around BC Revisiting the Main Issues
    Thomas Harrison: Greek tro and the Other
    Elina Pyy: Gratuitous Sex and Senseless Violence? The Oriental Queen as the Absolute Other
    Omar Coloru: Indians in the Graeco-Roman World A Stereotype of Otherness
    Antti Lampinen: Galatae between nordlig and Eastern Stereotypes Methods, Motives and Motifs of ‘Orientalisation’
    Jasmin Lukkari: Stereotypes, Cultural Identities and Code-Switching Polybius’ and Livy’s Portrayals of Antiochus IV
    Dominique Lenfant: A Persian Seraglio in a Greek Novel? Chariton’s Callirhoe and Modern Stereotypes on the Orient
    Antti Lampinen: