Ex-Florida state Repub chair promises "a Shakespearean play where everyone dies in the end,"

[longship]

1. I prefer Puccini's Tosca.

You know the opera's over when the last major character dies. BTW, it's beautiful music.

Here's Maria Callas and Tito Gobbi:

The best performance I've heard.

Here's a longer version (if you have the bandwidth):

Tosca ends when Floria Tosca jumps off the parapet of the Castle Saint Angelo to her death. (AKA Hadrian's tomb).