In the third act of the Opera Tosca, while waiting for its performance at Castel Sant'Angelo, the painter Mario Cavaradossi recalls the beautiful moments spent with his passionate and sweet lover. The Romanza opens with a nostalgic clarinet solo, whose melody is taken up by the tenor, almost literally, starting from the very famous line «Oh! dolci baci, o languido carezze». The melody, already heard in the last part of the introduction to the third act, returns in the form of a short orchestral ...