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Il Trittico State Opera Vienna - Wien Sun 21.Jun 2026 replace me !Il Trittico State Opera Vienna - Wien Thu 25.Jun 2026 replace me !Il Trittico State Opera Vienna - Wien Sat 27.Jun 2026 replace me !Il Trittico State Opera Vienna - Wien Tue 30.Jun 2026 replace me !Il tabarro is a gloomy marital drama set in the milieu of Parisian boatmen on the Seine: Grief for their deceased child stands between the couple Michele and Giorgetta, Giorgetta's affair with the worker Luigi ends in tragedy.
Suor Angelica, the "sentimental" story for which Giovacchino Forzano wrote the libretto, tells of the suffering of the eponymous nun, who draws her vitality from the memory of her son - the result of the "misstep" that brought her to this place - until she is robbed of this support.
For the comic third part, Gianni Schicchi, Forzano again adapted a short episode from Dante's Inferno: In order to obtain the inheritance of the rich Florentine Buoso Donati, his relatives instruct Gianni Schicchi to take his place and - as a supposedly dying man - dictate a will in their favor.
Each of the works has its own fascinating musical originality - the relentlessly advancing river motif in Tabarro, punctuated by Puccini's incomparable realisms, ship sirens, car horns, small incidental scenes; the deceptive calm of the monastic conversation in SuorAngelica, which is led to the dramatic climax with tremendous musical-dramaturgical precision (which finds its reflection in "Senza Mamma", one of the most famous and touching arias in the history of opera); the multifaceted musical wit in Gianni Schicchi, which ranges from playful cheerfulness to amusing chaos.Puccini composed the first part relatively quickly, but the search for the two "inks" that the composer wanted to add to the first took on almost epic proportions: In the end, a full eighteen years were to pass from the first idea to the New York premiere.(Source: wiener-staatsoper.at)
