Organization

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Baritone

Lucio Gallo

Michele

Tenor

Aleksandrs Antonenko

Luigi

Alan Oke

Tinca

Bass

Enrico Fissore

Talpa

Soprano

Eva-Maria Westbroek

Giorgetta

Mezzo-soprano

Irina Mishura

La Frugola

Ji Hyun Kim

A song seller

Conductor

Antonio Pappano

Stage director

Richard Jones

Set designer

Ultz

Costume designer

Nicky Gillibrand

Lighting designer

D.M. Wood

Choreographer

Lucy Burge

Royal Opera House

Il tabarro -  (The Cloak)

London

United Kingdom

The Cloak

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Antonio Pappano introduces the music from Il tabarro, the first opera in Puccini's Il trittico, with pianist Susanna Stranders, soprano Julie Unwin, and tenor Neal Cooper.
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Giacomo Puccini’s triptych of operas, Il trittico, opens with Il tabarro (The Cloak) – a taut melodrama set in working-class Paris. It is based on the play La Houppelande by the French playwright Didier Gold, which Puccini saw in 1912. The libretto was created by Giuseppe Adami, with whom Puccini also collaborated on La rondine.

Il tabarro opens with an evocation of the rippling waters of the Seine – a musical motif that runs throughout the opera. The river is also powerfully represented in Ultz’s stage designs, which re-create the moored barges and tall, soot-blackened buildings lining the Seine. The Royal Opera’s production opened in 2011 as part of the first complete staging of Il trittico at Covent Garden since 1965.

Antonio Pappano introduces the music from Il tabarro (The Royal Opera)

The Cloak by Puccini, From (2011/2011), Directed by Richard Jones,, Conductor Antonio Pappano, Royal Opera House, London, United Kingdom

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