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.
Lucio Gallo
as Michele/Gianni Schicchi
Eva-Maria Westbroek
as Giorgetta
Aleksandrs Antonenko
as Luigi
Ermonela Jaho
as Sister Angelica
Anna Larsson
as The Princess
Francesco Demuro
as Rinuccio
Ekaterina Siurina
as Lauretta
Antonio Pappano
as
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
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