Il trittico (The Triptych) is the title to a collection of three one-act operas, Il tabarro, Suor Angelica, and Gianni Schicchi, by Giacomo Puccini. First performance: New York, 1918. Il tabarro (The Cloak) is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Adami, based on Didier Golds La Houppelande. ... Suor Angelica (Sister Angelica) is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an original Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano. ... Gianni Schicchi is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano, based on a story that is referred to in Dantes The Divine Comedy. ... Giacomo Puccini Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (December 22, 1858 – November 29, 1924) is regarded as one of the great operatic composers of the late 19th and early 20th century. ...
Puccini intended that the three always be performned as a set, but today it is quite common to see only one or two performed in an evening. One of the operas may also be paired with another one-act opera by a different composer.
As a whole, Il trittico is quite balanced. Il tabarro, the first act, is very dark and brooding, full of the violence and grit associated with verismo opera. Suor Angelica, the second act, is an up-lifting tale of religious redemption. Gianni Schicchi, the third act, is the most popular, a comedic farce full of greed and conniving. Il tabarro (The Cloak) is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Adami, based on Didier Golds La Houppelande. ... Verismo was an Italian literary movement born approximately between 1875 and 1895. ... Suor Angelica (Sister Angelica) is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an original Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano. ... Gianni Schicchi is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano, based on a story that is referred to in Dantes The Divine Comedy. ...
Despite the limitations of the form, IlTrittico is still Puccini and has moments of his gloriously soaring melody, emotional verity, and melodramatic theatricality that make it worth the occasional production.
Il Tabarro is pure melodramatic verismo : passion, infidelity, and jealousy are expressed and then resolved through an act of murder.
Il Tabarro is given a simple, almost abstracted production, in which the floor of the stage becomes the deck of the barge on which the principals live.
In essa il capolavoro viene trasportato presumibilmente agli albori del XVI secolo e posto sull'altare maggiore; attorno alla metà del 1500 l'altare viene ristrutturato e iltrittico rimosso, perché non più in sintonia con il gusto stilistico di quel momento storico.
Il giorno 1º settembre 1984 si costituisce, con atto notarile, l'associazione per il recupero del trittico della Certosa, priva di fini di lucro, che si propone di raccogliere fondi da destinare al ritrovamento e al recupero del trittico, nonché alla promozione di interventi diretti alla conservazione di opere di particolare valore artistico, storico e archeologico.
Iltrittico viene diviso in piccoli lotti in atttesa di essere immesso sul mercato clandestino, un pezzo alla volta; fortunatamente questo progetto non verrà attuato, grazie all'intervento dei carabinieri che ritrovano il capolavoro.
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