Il Trittico: Il tabarro | Suor Angelica | Gianni Schicchi

Influenced by the success of Pietro Mascagni's one-act opera Cavalleria rusticana, c.1904. G. Puccini began planning a cycle of one-act operas. Various vicissitudes led to the final version being created more than 10 years later, and it was the last work completed by Puccini himself. Three one-act operas of different moods, combined under the name Il trittico (eng. Triptych) by Puccini himself, and performed on the same evening according to his idea, premiered in December 1918 in New York, at the Metropolitan Opera.

The action of the first one, Il tabarro, takes place in 1910 in Paris, on a barge on the Seine River. The opera is dark and brooding, full of dark violence and tormented love, closest to the verismo style. Suor Angelica – a lyrical drama, the action of which takes place in a monastery, in the second half of the 17th century. This was Puccini's favourite part of the Triptych, upliftingly telling the story of the redemption of past guilt, about the pure feelings of faith. The third, comical part Gianni Schicchi, became the most popular of all three operas and is often performed separately. Based on the plot of Dante, this opera is full of farce, intrigue and humor created by the main character, the famous Florentine con artist Gianni Schicchi.

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