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. Sung in Italian with English surtitles.

Cast/Performers

Stephen Gadd (Michele Il Tabarro), Anne Sophie Duprels (Giorgetta Il Tabarro not Jun 25 / 27), Elin Pritchard (Giorgetta Il Tabarro Jun 25 / 27), Jeff Gwaltney (Luigi Il Tabarro), Sarah Pring (Frugola Il Tabarro), Aled Hall (Tinca Il Tabarro), Simon Wilding (Talpa Il Tabarro), Johane Ansell (Soprano Amante Il Tabarro), James Edwards (Tenor Amante Il Tabarro), Peter Davoren (Song Vendor), Anne Sophie Duprels (Suor Angelca Suor Angelica not Jun 25 / 27), Rosalind Plowright (La Zia Principessa Suor Angelica), Fiona Mackay (La Badessa Suor Angelica), Laura Woods (La Suora Zelatirce Suor Angelica), Kathryn Walker (La Maestra delle Novizie Suor Angelica), Johane Ansell (Suor Genovieffa Suor Angelca), Kathryn Hannah (Suor Osmina Suor Angelica), Rosanne Have (Suor Dolcina Suor Angelica), Chloe Treharne (La Suora Infermiera Suor Angelica), Anna Patalong (Una Ceratrice Suor Angelica), Sarah Minns (Una Cercatrice Suor Angelica), Naomi Kilby (Una Novizia Suor Angelica), Rebecca Hardwick (Una Conversa Suor Angelica), Chloe Hinton (Una Conversa Suor Angelica), Richard Burkhard (Gianni Schicchi), Sarah Pring (Zita Gianni Schicchi)), Anna Patalong (Lauretta Gianni Schicchi not Jun 25 / 27), Christina Petrou (Lauretta Gianni Schicchi), James Edwards (Gherardo Gianni Schicchi), Aled Hall (Nella Gianni Schicchi), Elin Pritchard (Betto Gianni Schicchi), Simon Wilding (Simone Gianni Schicchi), William Robert Allenby (Marco Gianni Schicchi), Ian Beadle (La Ciesca Gianni Schicchi), Chloe Hinton (Spinelloccio Gianni Schicchi), Henry Grant Kerswell (Amantio di Nicolsa Gianni Schicchi), John Lofthouse (Pinellino Gianni Schicchi), Alistair Sutherland (Guccio Gianni Schicchi), Tom Asher (Gheradino Gianni Schicchi), Barnaby Stewart (Buoso Gianni Schicchi), Seamus McGowan (Gianni Schicchi)

Creatives/Company

Author: Puccini
Producer: Opera Holland Park
Company: City of London Sinfonia
Corporate Sponsor: Investec Wealth & Investment
Conductor: Stuart Stratford
Director(s): Martin Lloyd-Evans (Il Tabarro), Oliver Platt (Suor Angelica), Martin Lloyd-Evans (Gianni Schicci - originally directed), Oliver Platt (Gianni Schicci - revival director)
Design: Neil Irish
Lighting: Richard Howell