![]() ![]() Thankfully, he relented, and the aria became one of the most beloved, signature pieces in all opera. ![]() Puccini even considered cutting Tosca's Act II's plea to God asking why He had allowed her to get into this compromising position, “Vissi d-arte” (I lived for love), because it stopped the flow of the story. He urged his librettists to prune, cut, revise and get to the meat. Co-librettist Giacoso complained to the composer that there was nothing but plot, but Puccini knew exactly what he was doing when he secured the rights to Sardou's scandalous melodrama that had been written expressly for theater's great diva, Sarah Bernhardt. It speeds along, no time for detours, spinning its tale with a breakneck pace. Giacomo Puccini's verismo-fueled Tosca (1900) runs on opera's highest octane – sex and violence. ![]()
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