A Puccini hat-trick: Barrie Kosky directs Il trittico in Amsterdam

Joshua Guerrero (Luigi), Leah Hawkins (Giorgetta) and Daniel Luis de Vicente (Michele)

Il tabarro

Suor Angelica

Raehann Bryce-Davis (La zia principessa) and Elena Stikhina (Suor Angelica)

Gianni Schicchi

By Eleanor Knight, 04 May 2024

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“All the superlatives will be expended over this latest triumph... believe every one”

Reviewed at Dutch National Opera and Ballet, Amsterdam on 3 May 2024

Puccini, Il tabarro

Puccini, Suor Angelica

Puccini, Gianni Schicchi

Dutch National Opera

Lorenzo Viotti, Conductor

Barrie Kosky, Director

Rebecca Ringst, Set Designer

Victoria Behr, Costume Designer

Joachim Klein, Lighting Designer

Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra

Chorus of Dutch National Opera

Daniel Luis de Vicente, Michele, Gianni Schicchi

Leah Hawkins, Giorgetta

Joshua Guerrero, Luigi, Rinuccio

Mark Omvlee, Tinca, Gherardo

Sam Carl, Talpa, Betto di Signa

Raehann Bryce-Davis, La Frugola, La zia principessa

Inna Demenkova, A lover (soprano), Suor Genovieffa, Lauretta

Tigran Matinyan, A lover (tenor), Un venditore di canzonette (a song vendor)

Elena Stikhina, Suor Angelica

Helena Rasker, La badessa, Zita

Polly Leech, La suora zelatrice, La Ciesca

Eva Kroon, La maestra delle novizie

Sophia Hunt, Suor Dolcina, Una conversa 1, Nella

Ruth Willemse, Suor Osmina

Elsa Barthas, Una cercatrice 2

Vida Matičič Malnaršič, Una novizia

Martina Myskohlid, La suora infermiera

Lisette Bolle, Prima cercatrice

Yvonne Kok, Una conversa 2

Scott Wilde, Simone

Georgiy Derbas-Richter, Marco

Tomeu Bibiloni, Maestro Spinelloccio

Frederik Bergman, Ser Amantio di Nicolao

Emmanuel Franco, Pinellino

Christiaan Peters, Guccio

Edward Ananian-Cooper, Choirmaster / chorus director

Nieuw Amsterdams Kinderkoor

Anaïs de la Morandais, Choirmaster / chorus director

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Eleanor Knight

Eleanor is a writer and librettist. Her work has appeared in all kinds of places from the Royal Opera House to the foot tunnels beneath the Elephant and Castle roundabout, and she has written arts reviews and features for British papers and magazines. Having begun her working life in theatre, she switched to publishing and later taught creative writing at the University of Brighton and Birkbeck. Currently based in the Netherlands, she teaches at the University of Utrecht. Eleanor plays violin and sings, though not usually at the same time, and has recently taken up speed-skating.

A Puccini hat-trick: Barrie Kosky directs Il trittico at Dutch National Opera