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* Fanvid: ''[[https://youtube.com/watch?v=0N_Yw5_NjRw Tosca as seen by Lerner and Loewe]]'' is a culture-jamming GenreMashup setting music and dialogue from ''Theatre/MyFairLady'' to the old Covent Garden film of ''Tosca'''s Act II with Maria Callas and Tito Gobbi. Not only brilliantly funny, it got compliments from Cecile Gobbi, who wrote to the creator to say her dad would have loved it.
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* Fanvid: {{Fanvid}}: ''[[https://youtube.com/watch?v=0N_Yw5_NjRw Tosca as seen by Lerner and Loewe]]'' is a culture-jamming GenreMashup setting music and dialogue from ''Theatre/MyFairLady'' to the old Covent Garden film of ''Tosca'''s Act II with Maria Callas and Tito Gobbi. Not only brilliantly funny, it got compliments from Cecile Gobbi, who wrote to the creator to say her dad would have loved it.
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* {{Corpsing}}: Literally in this case. Even in this intensely tragic melodrama, sometimes things just happen. Maria Callas was blind as a bat without her glasses and in one production the set was so damn dark after Tosca kills Scarpia that at the premiere she found herself literally bumbling around trying to find her way off the stage. Tito Gobbi (who was supposed to be dead) gallantly tried to discreetly point to the exit, but started giggling, which set her off, along with people in the front row. In subsequent performances he was able to whisper some directions to her.
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* {{Corpsing}}: Literally in this case. Even in this intensely tragic melodrama, sometimes things just happen. Maria Callas was [[BlindWithoutEm blind as a bat without her glasses glasses]] and in one production the set was so damn dark after Tosca kills Scarpia that at the premiere she found herself literally bumbling around trying to find her way off the stage. Tito Gobbi (who was supposed to be dead) gallantly tried to discreetly point to the exit, but started giggling, which set her off, along with people in the front row. In subsequent performances he was able to whisper some directions to her.
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** Another TroubledProduction occurred soon after the premiere, when the great Neapolitan conductor Leopoldo Mugnone took a dislike to the tenor playing Cavaradossi. He couldn't fire him, because he'd been engaged by Puccini's publisher, Ricordi, who were extremely powerful and exerted a lot of control. So Mugnone put up with the guy until the night of the general dress rehearsal[[note]]a run-through of the entire work with the technicians, crew and cast (in full costume) doing it exactly the way they will at performances, this is to smooth out any last-minute problems[[/note]]. As the firing squad came in, Mugnone shouted: "HEY! SERGEANT!! USE LIVE BULLETS!!!"
