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Angelotti hides again at the sound of Tosca’s voice from outside.

Cavaradossi compares his Madonna’s blonde-haired, blue-eyed charm with the dark beauty of his lover, the famous singer Floria Tosca (“Recondita armonia”).Īngelotti emerges from hiding to find Cavaradossi, his political ally, who promises to help his friend escape from Rome. An elderly sacristan comes to tidy up, followed by Cavaradossi, a painter, who is at work on a portrait of the Madonna.

Angelotti, an escaped political prisoner, takes refuge in a side chapel of the church of Sant’Andrea della Valle in Rome. Bonaparte is the political enemy of Scarpia and the hero of Cavaradossi and Angelotti. Rome, June 1800, The Church of Sant’Andrea della Valle, Napoleon Bonaparte is advancing with his army.