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.
as Georgette / Suor Angelica
as Michele / Gianni Schicchi
as La badessa / Zita
as Amante / Suor Genoveffa / Lauretta
as Luigi / Amante / Rinuccio
as Il Tinca / Gherardo
as Il Talpa / Simone
as Un venditore di canzonette
as La Frugola / La suora zelatrice
as La zia principessa
as La maestra della novizie / La suora infermiera / La Ciesca
as Suor Osmina
as Suor Dolcina
as Prima sorella cercatrice / Nella
as Seconda sorella cercatrice
as Una novizia
as Betto di Signa
as Marco
as Maestro Spinelloccio / Ser Amantio di Nicolao
as Pinellino
as Guccio
as Gherardino
as Buoso Donati
