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Tosca's Rome: The Play and the Opera in Historical Perspective (Updated Edition) by Susan Vandiver Nicassio Paperback, 356 Pages, Published 2001 ISBN-10: 0-226-57972-7 / 0226579727 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-57972-6 / 9780226579726 A cheap, meretricious shocker or a probing and profoundly moving essay in human psychology? Debate about the merits of Tosca continues, but thanks to this fascinating book, we now have a new angle from which to consider one of the most popular operas in the repertory. Indeed, as Susan Vandiver Nicas |