IL TRITTICO Puccini – Opéra national de Paris

Three colours, three moods, three registers. And yet Puccini conceived this triptych as a whole from the outset. He interweaves these three one-act operas, from Il tabarro, a drama of passion set on the quays of the Seine in the early 20th century, to Gianni Schicchi, a burlesque farce set in medieval Florence, and Suor Angelica, a mystical tragedy set in a 17th-century convent.

Director Christof Loy, making his Paris Opera debut, places these works in an unusual order, progressing from comedy to drama - Gianni Schicchi, Il tabarro and Suor Angelica - conceived as a journey parallel to the chronology of the three cantiche of Dante’s Divine Comedy - Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. The first cantica is called forth through the character of Buso Donati and a form of macabre Machiavellianism, Purgatory is echoed in the sentimental wanderings and repentance of the pair of boatmen, and Paradise echoes in the forgiveness and mystical transcendence accorded to Suor Angelica. So, three operas with three women but just one performer. Lauretta's youthful freshness, Giorgetta's questioning of romantic love and Angelica's stigmatisation for bearing a child out of wedlock, trace what could be the journey through life of one and the same woman. A trajectory marked by milestones, embodied in this production for coherence's sake, by one and the same performer - Asmik Grigorian - whose performance has been acclaimed as one of the most outstanding seen and heard on the stage of Opéra Bastille in recent years.

Full performance streamed on OperaVision from 18 July 2025 at 19:00 CET to 18 January 2026 at 12:00 CET: https://operavision.eu/performance/il-trittico

CAST

Orchestra
Paris National Opera Orchestra

Chorus
Paris National Opera Chorus

Music
Giacomo Puccini

Text
Giovacchino Forzano
Giuseppe Adami

Director
Christof Loy

Conductor
Carlo Rizzi

Set design
Etienne Pluss

Costumes
Barbara Drosihn

Lights
Fabrice Kebour

Gianni Schicchi

Gianni Schicchi
Misha Kiria

Lauretta
Asmik Grigorian

Zita
Enkelejda Shkoza

Rinuccio
Alexey Neklyudov

Gherardo
Dean Power

Nella
Lavinia Bini

Betto
Manel Esteve Madrid

Simone
Scott Wilde

Marco
Iurii Samoilov

La Ciesca
Theresa Kronthaler

Maestro Spinelloccio
Matteo Peirone

Pinellino
Vartan Gabrielian

Guccio
Luis-Felipe Sousa

Amantio di Nicolao
Alejandro Baliñas Vieites

Il Tabarro

Michele
Roman Burdenko

Giorgetta
Asmik Grigorian

Luigi
Joshua Guerrero

Il Tinca
Andrea Giovannini

Il Talpa
Scott Wilde

La Frugola
Enkelejda Shkoza

Un venditore di canzonette
Dean Power

Un amante
Ilanah Lobel-Torres

Suor Angelica

Suor Angelica
Asmik Grigorian

La zia principessa
Karita Mattila

La badessa
Hanna Schwarz

La suora zelatrice
Enkelejda Shkoza

La Maestra delle novize
Theresa Kronthaler

Suor Genovieffa
Margarita Polonskaya

Suor Osmina
Ilanah Lobel-Torres

Suor Dolcina
Lucia Tumminelli

Suor infermiera
Maria Warenberg

Prima Cercatrice
Lavinia Bini

Seconda Cercatrice
Camille Chopin

Una novizia
Lisa Chaïb-Auriol

Prima conversa
Silga Tīruma

Seconda conversa
Sophie Van de Woestyne

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