Tosca (disambiguation)

Tosca is an opera by Giacomo Puccini. Tosca may also refer to:

Art, entertainment, and media

Music

Groups

Other art, entertainment, and media

  • Floria Tosca, the titular character in Puccini's opera
  • La Tosca, a play by Victorien Sardou, from which Puccini's opera was adapted
  • Tosca discography, a list of sound and video recordings of Puccini's Tosca
  • Tosca, a 1941 Italian film directed by Jean Renoir
  • Tosca, a 1956 film
  • Tosca, a 2001 film

Brands and enterprises

  • Daewoo Tosca, a car whose name is, reportedly, a contraction of Tomorrow Standard Car
  • Tosca, a fragrance by Mäurer & Wirtz
  • Tosca, a Michelin-starred restaurant in The Ritz-Carlton, Hong Kong
  • TOSCA Testsuite, a software tool for the automated execution of functional and regression software testing

Mascots

People

"Tosca" as a personal name derives from the Latin name Tusca, a feminine form referring to association with the region of Tuscany (Italian: Toscana).[1]

Places

Science and technology

  • TOSCA, the United States Toxic Substances Control Act
  • TOSCA, a neutron spectrometer at the ISIS neutron source
  • OASIS TOSCA (Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications), a cloud computing standard of the OASIS information technology standards organization
  • Project TOSCA (Toolbox for Surface Comparison and Analysis), a research project at the Technion
  • Tricentis Tosca, the software testing tool

Wine grapes

References

  1. Enzo La Stella T.: Santi e fanti - Dizionario dei nomi di persona, Roma, Zanichelli, 2009, ISBN 978-88-08-06345-8.
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