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46 FOUR SEASONS BREEZE | NOVEMBER 2025 On Nov. 14, the Four Seasons Opera Club presents Puccini's Tosca in e Lodge eater. Tosca is Puccini's dramatic, crowning achievement and Floria Tosca is one of opera's most memorable femme fatale heroines. Memoriable arias? Floria sings, "Vissi d'arte" ("I lived for my art, I lived for love") and her lover Cavaradossi sings, "E lucevan le stelle" ("And the stars were shining") as he awaits the ring squad fusilade. e corrupt chief of police, Scarpia, attempts to coerce Floria to yield her honor to him but instead Floria bestows "Tosca's Kiss" — a knife through the heart. When Floria discovers that Scarpia deceived her one last time in having Caravarossi shot with real bullets, she curses Scarpia and throws herself over the parapet wall of the Castel SantAngelo. Tosca is one of the most frequently performed works in the canon and there are many great productions. We will present a 1956 lm version by the Opera eatre of Rome featuring Franco Corelli. Handsome, with a powerful voice and passionate delivery, Corelli is one of the greatest tenors the world has ever known. Puccini premiered Tosca on Jan. 14, 1900 in Rome. It is very precisely set in time and place. He was commenting on the political situation in the Italian region and specically in Rome in this time frame (June 14, 1800). Our oering of Tosca will run 2 hours, 14 minutes, so there will be a short lecture before the actual screening begins. e lecture will explain the motivations of the characters to risk their lives and for Floria Tosca to murder Baron Scarpia in cold blood. ere will also be time to share a few inadvertently humorous endings to this tragic opera. Our second event this month will be the opera version of "Name at Tune." We will schedule a 90-minute program of arias from dierent operas and points will be awarded for correct answers. e participant with the most points will win a prize — a scented candle from Healthy Craing Club leader, Barbara Toyama. As this is the rst time the Opera Club does this, we will make it a little easy by sticking to shows we have presented since our inception two years ago. At best, you will win a scented soy candle, and at worst you will hear a selection of the greatest arias ever recorded. See you at the opera! ~ Harvey Toyama, admin@fsbopera.org, (951) 524-3765 Opera Club "Tosca's Kiss" dagger from the LA Opera Castel Sant'Angelo along the Tiber in Rome