Opera — a Scot (anag)

Usage examples of tosca.

Floria Tosca on this stage bore no resemblance to the thin, dark woman named Floria whom Weyland had known in New York.

Scarpia was addressing Tosca for the first time, offering her on his own fingertips holy water from the stoup.

In the small prop room a final test was run with the two candlesticks which Tosca must appear to light at the end of Act Two.

Only two remained onstage: Scarpia, composed and watchful, and Tosca, newly arrived in his office and trying to hide her alarm.

He identified it at once and smiled to himself: Scarpia and Tosca had finally overdone the pursuit scene and toppled the water pitcher from the dinner table.

Weyland could hear Scarpia gallantly agreeing to write the safe-conduct that Tosca demanded for herself and her lover before she would actually yield her body.

To his lust-motif, inverted and muted to a sinister whisper in the strings and flutes, Tosca set a lighted candle down at each of his outflung hands.

The pad was two stacks of mattresses roped together side by side, twenty in all to cushion the fall not of the dummy but of Tosca, when she leaped off the battlement in the end.

Yet he had been destroyed by his lust for Tosca, surely a passion in itself?

The madness that inflamed him that night of Tosca had not struck him since, nor did he expect anything like it again.

This was where the authentic old Italian heart of the city beat most strongly, and Danny Tosca was in some sense its unofficial pacemaker.

Freeman had tried another ploy, suggesting on round two that this time Glitsky arrest Dan Tosca and somehow squeeze him for information on the multimillion-dollar fish-poaching trade.

Dolores and Rogelio Tosca, exiled Cuban nationals who immigrated to Canada from Havana in 1987.

Marisela, in the role of Dolores Tosca, and Javier Perez drifted into the room.

Frankie and Marisela, as Rogelio and Dolores Tosca, walked through the impressive archway onto the terrace.