Scene: The Castle of Sant' Angelo
Cast
Conductor, VINCENZO BELLEZZA from the Royal Opera House, Coverit
Garden
In Act III of Puccini's Tosca Cavara dossi is seen writing a letter of farewell 'on the battlements of Sant' Angelo prison. He soliloquises over the past in the aria ' When the stars were brightly shining '. Tosca comes to explain that dummy bullets are to be used for the execution. The firing party take up their positions. Cavaradossi falls. Tosca gives the signal for him to get up, but the execution, unfortunately, is a real one.
Guards rush up to arrest Tosca for the murder of Scarpia. She pushes them aside and throws herself over the parapet.