Une malade
Friends Philippe and Laurent, a violinist and a cello player, frequently team up to play special gigs. While performing for a wedding, they meet the high-class Sophie. Unfortunately for Sophie and the musicians, both of whom she eventually has relationships with, Sophie has an entirely unscrupulous drug-peddling mother, who will stop at nothing to pursue her plans.
The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1887 French-language dramatic play, La Tosca, is a melodramatic piece set in Rome in June 1800, with the Kingdom of Naples's control of Rome threatened by Napoleon's invasion of Italy. It contains depictions of torture, murder and suicide, as well as some of Puccini's best-known lyrical arias. Franco Corelli, Franca Duval (voice of Maria Caniglia), and Afro Poli (voice of Gian Giacomo Guelfi) star in this 1956 film with the Orchestra & Chorus Of the Rome Opera conducted by Oliviero De Fabritiis. Carmine Gallone directs. ...Puccini: Tosca (1956)
