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Performance Dates
5 - 18 March 2027
Run time: 3 hours and 40 minutes
Includes interval
Lovers. Mothers. Gold-diggers. A trio of Puccini operas, directed by the Olivier Award-winning Richard Jones. With three casts, Speranza Scappucci conducts three operas; Il tabarro, Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi.
Il Trittico consists of three operas by Puccini; Il tabarro, Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi. The operas are all sung in Italian, with English surtitles on screens around the auditorium.
The first, Il tabarro, Giorgetta has lost her baby, so she seeks solace in an affair with one of her husband’s dockyard workers, Luigi, who she ends up falling in love with. Michele, her husband, has a growing suspicion, and jealousy. He maliciously takes matters into his own hands…
In Suor Angelica, Sister Angelica who was forced into a convent by her family following a scandal. Her aunt pays her a visit, bringing unwelcome news - asking Angelica to sign over her inheritance to her younger sister, along with devastating news about her illegitimate son.
And finally in Gianni Schicchi, a Florentine family enlists the cunning Schicchi to help them rewrite a will, little knowing that Schicchi has his own plans.
3 hours and 40 minutes, including two intervals.
Sung in Italian with English surtitles, which are displayed on screens above the stage and around the auditorium.