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Puccini's Il Trittico, performed last night at the Opéra Bastille in Paris, is a unique item in the repertoire: a series of three one act operas with little to link them except the composer's conceit of what would work together in an evening. Each opera clocks in at something under an hour, and despite the relatively short duration, each has plenty of time to develop its characters.

Le rare opéra de Charpentier bénéficie de l'incarnation proche de l'idéal d'Elsa Dreisig dans le rôle-titre, dans une mise en scène de Christof Loy qui joue habilement avec l'intrigue de cet ouvrage à la Zola.