Encounter at the OperaChapter 2
The second act shows the darkness and the perversity of the tyran Scarpia, who rules upon Rom. Cavaradossi has been arrested and Scarpia gets ready for dinner. At his invitation, Floria Tosca comes to meet him and negotiate her lover’s freedom. Scarpia dreams of abusing her. We hear Tosca singing in the background. As soon as the first notes of the act diffuse in the theater, the door opens and the young woman enters. She comes straight to me and takes the very same position close to me...