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** Tosca's ''Vissi d'arte''.
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: Tosca's jealousy seems to be as well-known as her singing voice.
* [[Cold
* [[Downer Ending]]
* [[The Dreaded]]: All of Rome trembles in fear before Scarpia.
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* [[Hope Spot]]: Right before the "fake" execution, Tosca and Cavaradossi playfully tease each other and make plans about their happy future together.
* [[Irrelevant Act Opener]]: the shepherd in Act III.
* [[Kill
* [[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 *in a church*, with the congregation singing the "Te Deum"] right behind him.
** 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.
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* [[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.
* [[Shot At Dawn]]: Cavaradossi's execution.
* [[Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter!]]: Tosca has a moment of this in act 2 after Scarpia demands that she has sex with him.
* [[Shout Out/To Shakespeare|Shout Out To Shakespeare]]: Scarpia compares himself to [[Othello|Iago]] in his first scene. You know, just in case you were confused about who the villain here was.
* [[Staged Shooting]]: Cavaradossi's firing squad is a subversion -- Scarpia tells Tosca that the guns will be loaded with blanks, but he pulls a variation on [[You Said You Would Let Them Go]] instead.
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