Finding the right librettos was not easy, but one month after the end of the First World War, his triptych – the grim tragedy Il tabarro, the lyrical and sensitive Suor Angelica, and the comedy Gianni Schicchi – premiered in New York. Three different eras, three different settings, three different ‘colours’; though for Puccini, it is through the contrasts between them that the unity of the work is revealed. For his second time directing at La Monnaie, Tobias Kratzer preserves the original order of the pieces, while weaving them together to form a narrative whole, like a circle with no end. With a cast of artists from the extended La Monnaie family, Alain Altinoglu is the ideal conductor to meet the daunting challenges posed by this triptych.
Georgette / Suor Angelica
Michele / Gianni Schicchi
La badessa / Zita
Amante / Suor Genoveffa / Lauretta
Luigi / Amante / Rinuccio
Il Tinca / Gherardo
Il Talpa / Simone
Un venditore di canzonette
La Frugola / La suora zelatrice
La zia principessa
La maestra della novizie / La suora infermiera / La Ciesca
Suor Osmina
Suor Dolcina
Prima sorella cercatrice / Nella
Seconda sorella cercatrice
Una novizia
Betto di Signa
Marco
Maestro Spinelloccio / Ser Amantio di Nicolao
Pinellino
Guccio
Gherardino
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