Cavaradossi gives Angelotti his basket of food and Angelotti hurriedly returns to his hiding place. Tosca's voice is heard, calling to Cavaradossi. Cavaradossi promises to assist him after nightfall. The Sacristan mumbles his disapproval before leaving.Īngelotti emerges and tells Cavaradossi, an old friend who has republican sympathies, that he is being pursued by the Chief of Police, Baron Scarpia. Cavaradossi describes the "hidden harmony" ("Recondita armonia") in the contrast between the blonde beauty of his painting and his dark-haired lover, the singer Floria Tosca. The Sacristan identifies a likeness between the portrait and a blonde-haired woman who has been visiting the church recently (unknown to him, it is Angelotti's sister the Marchesa). The painter Mario Cavaradossi arrives to continue work on his picture of Mary Magdalene. The Sacristan kneels in prayer as the Angelus sounds. The elderly Sacristan enters and begins cleaning. Inside the church of Sant'Andrea della ValleĬesare Angelotti, former consul of the Roman Republic and now an escaped political prisoner, runs into the church and hides in the Attavanti private chapel – his sister, the Marchesa Attavanti, has left a key to the chapel hidden at the feet of the statue of the Madonna.
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