Tosca (1956 film)

1956 Italian film

Tosca

Directed by| Carmine Gallone
Written by| Giuseppe Giacosa (libretto)
Luigi Illica (libretto)
Victorien Sardou (play)
Produced by| Giulio Fiaschi
Carmine Gallone
Guido Luzzatto
Manlio Morelli
Starring| Franca Duval
Franco Corelli
Vito De Taranto
Afro Poli
Cinematography| Giuseppe Rotunno
Edited by| Niccolò Lazzari
Music by| Giacomo Puccini (opera)

Production
company

Produzione Gallone

Distributed by| CEI Incom

Release date

* 26 August 1956 (1956-08-26)

Running time

| 110 minutes
Country| Italy
Language| Italian

Tosca is a 1956 Italian musical melodrama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Franca Duval, Afro Poli and Franco Corelli.[1] It is based on the 1900 opera Tosca by Giacomo Puccini, which was adapted from the 1887 play by Victorien Sardou. It was made at Cinecittà in Rome.

## Cast

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* Franca Duval as Floria Tosca
* Franco Corelli as Mario Cavaradossi
* Afro Poli as Baron Scarpia, chief of police
* Vito De Taranto [it] as The Sacristan
* Fernando Alfieri as Spoletta, police official
* Antonio Sacchetti as Cesare Angelotti
* Aldo Corelli as Sciarrone, a gendarme
* Dino Conti as The Jailkeeper
* Maria Caniglia as Tosca (singing voice)
* Giangiacomo Guelfi as Scarpia (singing voice)

## References

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1. ^ Goble p. 988

## Bibliography

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* Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

## External links

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* Tosca (1956) at IMDb

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Films directed by Carmine Gallone

* Il bacio di Cirano (1913)
* The Naked Truth (1914)
* Senza colpa! (1915)
* Flower of Evil (1915)
* The Wedding March (1915)
* Sotto le tombe (1915)
* Avatar (1916)
* La falena (1916)
* Malombra (1917)
* The Thirteenth Man (1917)
* La storia di un peccato (1918)
* Redemption (1919)
* A Doll Wife (1919)
* The Sea of Naples (1919)
* On with the Motley (1920)
* The Faces of Love (1924)
* The Fiery Cavalcade (1925)
* The Last Days of Pompeii (1926)
* The City of a Thousand Delights (1927)
* Pawns of Passion (1928)
* Land Without Women (1929)
* Ship in Distress (1929)
* The Singing City (1930)
* City of Song (1931)
* My Cousin from Warsaw (1931)
* A Son from America (1932)
* Sailor's Song (1932)
* Going Gay (1933)
* My Heart Calls You (1934)
* Two Hearts in Waltz Time (1934)
* My Heart Is Calling You (1934)
* My Heart is Calling (1935)
* Casta Diva (1935)
* If It Were Not for Music (1935)
* The Divine Spark (1935)
* Thank You, Madame (1936)
* Mother Song (1937)
* Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal (1937)
* Giuseppe Verdi (1938)
* Marionette (1939)
* The Dream of Butterfly (1939)
* Eternal Melodies (1940)
* Love Me, Alfredo! (1940)
* Manon Lescaut (1940)
* Beyond Love (1940)
* The Secret Lover (1941)
* First Love (1941)
* The Two Orphans (1942)
* The Queen of Navarre (1942)
* Odessa in Flames (1942)
* Harlem (1943)
* Sad Loves (1943)
* The Song of Life (1945)
* Biraghin (1946)
* Before Him All Rome Trembled (1946)
* The Lady of the Camellias (1947)
* The Legend of Faust (1949)
* The Force of Destiny (1950)
* Night Taxi (1950)
* Messalina (1951)
* We're Dancing on the Rainbow (1952)
* Fatal Desire (1953)
* Puccini (1953)
* Madame Butterfly (1954)
* House of Ricordi (1954)
* Casta Diva (1954)
* Mata Hari's Daughter (1954)
* Don Camillo's Last Round (1955)
* Michel Strogoff (1956)
* Tosca (1956)
* Carthage in Flames (1960)
* Don Camillo: Monsignor (1961)
* Carmen di Trastevere (1962)
* La monaca di Monza (1962)

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Giacomo Puccini

List of compositions

Operas|

* Le Villi (1884)
* Edgar (1889)
* Manon Lescaut (1893)
* La bohème (1896)
* discography
* Tosca (1900)
* discography
* Madama Butterfly (1904)
* discography
* La fanciulla del West (1910)
* La rondine (1917)
* Il trittico (1918)
* Il tabarro
* Suor Angelica
* Gianni Schicchi
* discography
* Turandot (1924)
* discography

Arias|

* "Torna ai felici dì"
* "Donna non vidi mai"
* "Quando me'n vo'"
* "E lucevan le stelle"
* "Recondita armonia"
* "Vissi d'arte"
* "Ch'ella mi creda"
* "O mio babbino caro"
* "In questa reggia"
* "Nessun dorma"
* "Non piangere, Liù"
* "Tu che di gel sei cinta"
* "Signore, ascolta!"
* "O soave fanciulla"
* "Che gelida manina"
* "Un bel dì, vedremo"

Other works|

* Messa di Gloria (1880)
* Requiem (1905)

Film adaptations|

* La Bohème (1926 film)
* Tosca (1956 film)
* La Bohème (1965 film)
* La Bohème (1988 film)
* La Bohème (2008 film)
* Tosca (2001 film)

Family|

* Jacopo Puccini (great-great-grandfather)
* Domenico Puccini (grandfather)
* Simonetta Puccini (granddaughter)

Related articles|

* Festival Puccini
* Giulio Ricordi
* Puccini Spur
* Villa Puccini

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