Puccini Il Trittico

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 Angelicas 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 Oliviernominated Royal Opera production featuring a trio of oneact 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 Puccinis triptych The trio of operas offers a panorama of emotions with the dark and foreboding Il tabarro and comic Gianni Schicchi bookending a heartwrenching Suor Angelica