Va, Tosca (Te Deum) - Tosca

Scarpia

Three guards... One carriage...

Quickly…follow her

Wherever she goes!... unseen!... be careful!

Spoletta

Alright! Where will we meet?

Scarpia

Palazzo Farnese!

Go, Tosca! Scarpia nestles in your heart!...

It’s Scarpia that

Arouses your jealousy.

There’s so much promise in your quick suspicion!

The crowd is forming into two wings.

Cardinal

In the name of the Lord, our God

Crowd

Who made heaven and earth

Cardinal

Blessed be His name

Crowd

From this time now and for evermore.

Scarpia

Two goals,

I must tend to, the leader of the rebels

And the most precious thing. Ah those victorious eyes

To see the flame

Languishing with pangs of love,

In my arms...

One to the gallows,

The other in my arms...

Crowd

We praise thee, O God:

We acknowledge thee to be the Lord!

Scarpia

Tosca, you make me forget God!

Everyone

All the earth doth worship thee:

The Father everlasting!

This is from a 1992 production in which Tosca was performed in the exact places of the libretto, in something close to real time. The orchestra was a few miles away.

With Mauro Buffoli as Spoletta (I like him, great Spoletta).

1992, Conductor: Zubin Mehta.