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Soprano Asmik Grigorian stars in all three operas of Puccini's Il trittico in a performance with the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Franz Welser-Möst.

Puccini wrote the three one-act operas which make up Il trittico in the middle of the First World War. These seemingly unrelated stories all share the theme of individuals trapped in the grinding mills of unfreedom. Written in the more compressed style of his later operas, these three works contain moments of high drama and soaring melody. In this production by Christof Loy the normal order of the operas is changed.

So we start with the Comedy of Gianni Schicchi set in Florence, in the house of Buoso Donati, who has just died. The cunning Gianni Schicchi finds a way to win the inheritance for himself. In Il tabarro (‘The Cloak’) set in Paris, the barge owner Michele suspects his stevedore Luigi of an affair with his wife, Giorgetta. In Suor Angelica the young nun Angelica has been banished to the convent for an indiscretion. When she learns that her young son has died, she decides to take her own life.

Recorded earlier this summer at the Salzburg Festival in Austria.

Georgia Mann in conversation with opera expert Roger Parker introduces these three tales of love, jealousy, greed, despair and death.

Giacomo Puccini: Il trittico

1830
GIANNI SCHICCHI
Gianni Schicchi ..... Misha Kiria (baritone
Lauretta ..... Asmik Grigorian (soprano)
Zita ..... Enkelejda Shkosa (contralto)
Rinuccio ..... Alexey Neklyudov (tenor)
Gherardo ..... Dean Power (tenor)
Nella ..... Lavinia Bini (soprano)
Betto di Signa ..... Manel Esteve Madrid (bass)
Simone ..... Scott Wilde (bass)
Marco ..... Iurii Samoilov (baritone)
La Ciesca ..... Caterina Piva (mezzo-soprano)
Maestro Spinelloccio ..... Matteo Peirone (bass)
Ser Amantio di Nicolao ..... Mikołaj Trąbka (baritone)
Pinellino ..... Aleksei Kulagin (bass)
Guccio ..... Liam James Karai (bass)

1930
IL TABARRO
Michele ..... Roman Burdenko (baritone)
Giorgetta ..... Asmik Grigorian (soprano)
Luigi ..... Joshua Guerrero (tenor)
Il Tinca ..... Andrea Giovannini (tenor)
Il Talpa ..... Scott Wilde (bass)
La Frugola ..... Enkelejda Shkosa (mezzo-soprano)
Song-seller / A lover ..... Dean Power (tenor)
A lover ..... Martina Russomanno (soprano)

2030
SUOR ANGELICA
Sister Angelica ..... Asmik Grigorian (soprano)
The Princess ..... Karita Mattila (soprano)
The Abbess ..... Hanna Schwarz (mezzo-soprano)
The Monitress ..... Enkelejda Shkosa (mezzo-soprano)
The Mistress of the novices ..... Caterina Piva (mezzo-soprano)
Sister Genovieffa ..... Giulia Semenzato (soprano)
Sister Osmina ..... Martina Russomanno (soprano)
Sister Dolcina ..... Daryl Freedman (soprano)
The Nursing sister ..... Juliette Mars (mezzo-soprano)
Alms sisters ..... Lavinia Bini (soprano), Alma Neuhaus (mezzo-soprano)
Novice ..... Amira Elmadfa (soprano)

Vienna State Opera Chorus
Salzburger Festspiele und Theater Kinderchor
Vienna Philharmonic
Franz Welser-Möst (conductor)

Read the synopsis and further details about the production on the Salzburg Festival website: https://bit.ly/3hrcZMD