TOSCA - End of ACT I

From the Bel Canto Opera production of Tosca, in the church of Sant' Andrea delle Valle in Rome, 1944, Col. Scarpia sends his Nazi henchmen to follow Tosca's car, hoping she will lead them to where Cavaradossi and Andreotti are hiding.

SCARPIA The staff car... follow that woman! Hurry!
She'll lead you straight to the villa! They're both there. In hiding.
KAPPLER I'll find them. Where will you be?
SCARPIA I'll wait in my office.
Go, Tosca! In your heart there's room for Scarpia.
Go Tosca! 'Twas Scarpia who set loose the soaring falcon that is your jealous nature.
Every suspicion is a promise to Scarpia. Tosca's soul...belongs to Scarpia!
Go, Tosca!
WORSHIPPERS at prayer: Adjutorum nostrum in nomine Domini
Qui fecit coelum et terram
Sit nomen Domini benedictum
Et hoc nunc et usquem in saeculum.
SCARPIA
Two birds with one stone.
I, and I alone, invested with such power...
I can do what I want with them.
Him... I'll dispose of. He's condemned for his partisan treason.
She's what I prize! Her body quivering with love, weak in my clutches.
I hold their fate in my hands.
His, to the graveyard...
and the other to Scarpia's bed!
CHORUS OF WORSHIPPERS AND CHOIR
Te Deum laudamus: Te Dominum confitemur!
SCARPIA
Tosca, for you I forfeit God's salvation!
ALL Te aeternum Patrem omnis terra veneratur!

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• Bel
• Canto
• Opera
• Tosca
• Puccini
• Scarpia
• David
• Purcell
• Tom
• Boyd

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thank you for this video.