Let me just sugest something:  If you listen to Tosca as you would listen
to The Magic Flute, you will really not like it very much.  However, if you
forget for a while the rationalism whe live in and just allow yourself to
share Tosca's suffering, and instead of trying to make complex analysis of
the plot and of the characters, think of Scarpia as plain bad, perfido,
celerado, then GP's music will suddenly make much more sense, and you will
anderstand what is so great about this piece of music.

Daniel Soren Presgrave <[log in to unmask]>