Details

Three one-act operas tell contrasting stories of jealousy and murder, loss and suicide, romance and cheerful trickery. Puccini's Il trittico consists of three one-act, contrasting pieces. The first opera Il tabarro (The Cloak), is set on a barge on the Seine, and explores an unusually dark setting of a tragedy which ends in violence and brutality, while Suor Angelica looks at the themes of sin, redemption and motherhood within a repressive religious life. The triptych ends with Gianni Schicchi which sets the story of a clever rogue and a greedy Florentine family in the 1950s. Il trittico has not been presented in full by The Royal Opera since 1965.

Cast/Performers

Lucio Gallo (Michele - Il tabbro / Gianni Schicchi), Eva-Maria Westbroek (Giorgetta - Il tabarro), Aleksandrs Antonenko (Luigi - Il tabarro), Alan Oke (Tinca - Il tabarro / Gherardo - Gianni Schicchi), Jeremy White (Talpa / Betto di Signa - Gianni Schicchi), Irina Mishura (Frugola - Il tabarro / La Badessa - Suor Angelica), Anna Devin (Lover - Il tabarro), Robert Anthony Gardiner (Lover - Il tabarro), Ji Hyun Kim (Ballad Seller - Il tabarro), Ermonela Jaho (Suor Angelica), Anna Devin (Suor Genoveva - Suor Angelica), Elizabeth Woollett (A Nursing Sister - Suor Angelica), Elizabeth Sikora (La Maestra delle Novizie - Suor Angelica), Gillian Webster (Alms Sister - Suor Angelica), Melissa Alder (lay sister - Suor Angelica), Kate McCarney (lay sister - Suor Angelica), Andrea Hazell (Suor Osmina - Suor Angelica), Katy Batho (Novice - Suor Angelica), Elizabeth Key (Suor Dolcina - Suor Angelica), Lucio Gallo (Gianni Schicchi - Gianni Schicchi), Ekaterina Siurina (Lauretta - Gianni Schicchi), Francesco Demuro (Rinuccio - Gianni Schicchi), Elena Zilio (Zita - Gianni Schicchi), Gwynne Howell (Simone - Gianni Schicchi), Alan Oke (Gherardo - Gianni Schicchi), Jeremy White (Betto di Signa - Gianni Schicchi), Rebecca Evans (Nella - Gianni Schicchi), Robert Poulton (Marco - Gianni Schicchi), Marie McLaughlin (La Ciesca - Gianni Schicchi), Enrico Fissore (Ser Amantio di Nicolao - Gianni Schicchi), Henry Waddington (Maestro Spinelloccio - Gianni Schicchi), Daniel Grice (Pinellino - Gianni Schicchi), John Molloy (Guccio - Gianni Schicchi)

Creatives/Company

Author: Puccini
Producer: Royal Opera House
Music: Richard Jones (two new parts to Gianni Schicchi)
Conductor: Antonio Pappano
Design(s): Ultz (Il tabarro), Mariam Buether (Suor Angelica), John Macfarlane (Gianni Schicchi)
Costume: Nicky Gillibrand
Lighting(s): D.M. Wood (Il tabarro / Suor Angelica), Mimi Jordan Sherin (Gianni Schicchi)