Il Trittico - Royal Opera House

Synopsis

Il tabarro is a tale of jealousy and murder between Michele, his young wife Giorgetta and her lover Luigi, set aboard a barge on the Seine. Suor Angelica tells the story of the nun Angelica’s familial loss, sacrifice and suicide. Gianni Schicchi is an opera full of trickery, greed and romance as a family dispute breaks out over a missing will. The Olivier-nominated Royal Opera production featuring a trio of one-act Puccini operas was first performed together on the same bill at Covent Garden in September 2011, and was acclaimed by the Telegraph as "an operatic treat... three hours of gorgeous music that allows big voices to let emotion rip" and by the Evening Standard as "a triumphant vindication of the social awareness and dramatic power of Puccini's triptych". The trio of operas offers a panorama of emotions, with the dark and foreboding Il tabarro and comic Gianni Schicchi bookending a heart-wrenching Suor Angelica.

Cast

Lucio Gallo

Michele - Il Tabarro / Gianni Schicchi -Gianni Schicchi

Eva-Maria Westbroek

Giorgetta - Il Tabarro

Aleksandrs Antonenko

Luigi - Il Tabarro

Alan Oke

Tinca - Il Tabarro / Gherardo - Gianni Schicchi

Jeremy White

Talpa - Il Tabarro

Ermonela Jaho

Sister Angelica - Suor Angelica

Anna Larsson

La Zia Principessa - Suor Angelica

Irina Mishura

La Badessa - Suor Angelica

Elena Zilio

La Suora Zelatrice - Suor Angelica / Zita - Gianni Schicchi

Elizabeth Sikora

La Maestra delle novizie - Suor Angelica