Realizing the Marchesa Attavanti is the inspiration for the Magdalene, accuses him of cheating on her. Her jealousy is aroused when she sees the painting of Mary Magdalene. She arranges to meet Mario that evening at his villa. He gains Mario’s help in hiding from the police just as Tosca is heard outside the church doors. Angelotti enters and recognizes Cavaradossi as a friend. Cavaradossi enters and looking at his new painting of Mary Magdalene, he compares the blue-eyed Magdalene to his beloved, dark-eyed Tosca.The Magdalene has been inspired by an unknown young woman who has been coming to the church daily to pray, whois the sister of Angelotti–the Marchesa Attavanti. Angelotti hides in his family’s chapel in the church, in which his sister has secretly left him food.The comic Sacristan enters, cleaning up the brushes left by the painter, Mario Cavaradossi. This is immediately followed by furious music, representing the exhausted Cesare Angelotti, consul of the fallen Roman Republic, who has escaped from Castel Sant’Angelo. As the curtain rises on Puccini’s fifth opera, the orchestra introduces three of the most famous chords in all of music–the theme that represents Baron Scarpia. The Church of Sant’Andrea della Valle, Rome.
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