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Rewriting Tosca

setpiece · opera: Tosca · retold in 3 talks

Proposing a rewrite of Puccini's Tosca where Cavaradossi survives, embracing Tosca with triumphant music, to show the limit of creativity and the desire for happy endings.

As told 2

“If you know the ending like she lies dead... he moves he says 'no no Tosca I was just kidding I’m really alive' and then embrace.”
“what if tosca runs to the edge to jump down. when cavaradossi starts to move and say, ha ha, don't jump too fast, i was just joking, i'm really alive”

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Proposing a rewrite of Puccini's Tosca where Cavaradossi survives, embracing Tosca with triumphant music, to show the limit of creativity and the desire for happy endings., illustrating pessimist believing in miracles
What if, as Tosca runs to jump, Cavaradossi suddenly moves and shouts 'don't jump, I was just joking, I'm alive', the triumphant music would actually fit better there than the tragic death., illustrating ontological incompleteness of the universe,the openness of the work