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''[[Tosca]]'' is an [[Opera]] by Giacomo Puccini, one of the most famous operas.
On the eve of Napoleon's occupation of Rome, the painter Mario Cavaradossi hides his friend, escaped political prisoner Cesare Angelotti, from the police. Unfortunately this brings both him and his sweetheart, the singer Floria Tosca, to the attention of the villainous chief of police Scarpia. Scarpia arrests Cavaradossi and demands that [[Scarpia Ultimatum|Tosca spend the night with him]], then the painter's execution will be fake, and the lovers will be able to leave Rome. Tosca agrees, but when Scarpia comes to embrace her, she stabs him in the heart with a knife. Unfortunately, Scarpia did not intend to release Cavaradossi at all, and the execution turns out to be real. Seeing her lover dead and Scarpia's henchmen running to get her, Tosca [[Better to Die Than Be Killed|leaps off the parapet]] of the Castel Sant'Angelo, crying that she will meet Scarpia before God.
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* [[Aristocrats Are Evil]]: Baron Scarpia against commoners Cavaradossi and Tosca.
* [[The Bad Guy Wins]]: Even when he's dead.
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* [[Irrelevant Act Opener]]: the shepherd in Act III.
* [[Kill'Em All]]
* [[Lyrical Dissonance]]: Scarpia has all these gorgeously melodic tunes. He's singing about his plots to rape Tosca, kill Cavaradossi, and generally be as nasty as possible. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3McP88FGHo This all happens while he's
** His second [[Villain Song]], ''Ha più forte sapore'', in which he sings about how he likes to win women by force, is also quite lovely to hear.
* [[Moral Myopia]]: Talking loudly in church? Scandalous! Planning murder and rape ''while still in church''? Perfectly all right.
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* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: Cavaradossi is hiding Cesare Angelotti from the authorities. Tosca finds a fan, dropped by Angelotti's sister when hiding food and clothes, and immediately assumes Cavaradossi is cheating on her.
* [[Rash Equilibrium]]: Scarpia doesn't actually pardon Cavaradossi, as he promised Tosca; Tosca kills Scarpia rather than sleep with him as she promised in order to get the pardon.
▲* [[Scarpia Ultimatum]]: The [[Trope Namer]].
* [[Scenery Porn]]: Sant'Andrea della Valle, the Farnese Palace and the Castel Sant'Angelo; Puccini seems determined to prove that there's no place more beautiful than Rome for a story of torture, murder, and suicide.
* [[See You in Hell]]: Kind of — just before jumping off the parapet, Tosca cries that she'll next be meeting Scarpia before God, with the implication that they'll both be answering for their crimes.
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