"The escaped prisoner ""Angelotti"" appears in which opera?"
Tosca the opera and which represent the evil character of Scarpia—or perhaps, Charles Osborne proposes, the violent atmosphere that pervades the entire opera. Budden has suggested that Scarpia's tyranny, lechery and lust form "the dynamic engine that ignites the drama". Other motifs identify Tosca herself, the love of Tosca and Cavaradossi, the fugitive Angelotti, the semi-comical character of the sacristan in act 1 and the theme of torture in act 2. The opera begins without any prelude; the opening chords of the Scarpia motif lead immediately to the agitated appearance of Angelotti and the enunciation of the "fugitive" motif. The sacristan's
Prisoner of the Caucasus (opera) Prisoner of the Caucasus (opera) Prisoner of the Caucasus ("Кавказский пленник" in Cyrillic, "Kavkazskij plennik" in transliteration) is an opera in three acts, composed by César Cui. The libretto is credited to Viktor Krylov, and is based on Alexander Pushkin's poem "The Prisoner of the Caucasus". The English title has been rendered also as "Prisoner in the Caucasus" and "The Captive in the Caucasus". The opera was preceded on the Russian stage by choreographer Charles Didelot's ballet of 1825. The opera was composed in three versions. The first, in 1857-1858, consisted of only two acts (which later became Acts I