Name: Suor Angelica
Start: 2023-10-25T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-11-04T00:00:00.000Z
Location: National Opera House

Organization

Wexford Festival Opera

Direction d'orchestre

Giorgio D'Alonzo

Mise en scène

Grace Morgan

Décors

Lisa Krugel

Costumes

Lumières

Maksym Diedov

Chanteur

Soprano

Lorna McLean

Sœur Angélique

Contralto

Grace Maria Wain

La Princesse

Mezzo-soprano

Dominica Williams

L'Abbesse

Emma Jungling

La Sœur zélatrice

Erin Fflur

La Maîtresse des Novices

Zita Syme

Sœur Geneviève

Susie Gibbons

Sœur Osmina

Kathleen Nic Dhiarmada

Sœur Dolcina

Helen Maree Cooper

La sœur Infirmière

Orchestra

Orchestra of Wexford Festival Opera

italien

Suor Angelica -  (Sœur Angélique)

Wexford

Irlande

National Opera House

Jerome Hynes Theatre

Suor Angelica Puccini

Public

anglais

Valide

World War I was a particularly difficult time for Puccini. His publisher, Giulio Ricordi, had died in 1912, leaving the publishing house in the hands of his son — much less inclined to support Puccini’s music, and more interested in the younger, newer composers such as Riccardo Zandonai, for instance. To make matters worse, Puccini’s only son Tonio was away fighting on Italy’s northern front. And, speaking of borders, Puccini’s travels had become curtailed — so much so that he got into trouble with the Italian consul in Lugano for visiting his latest mistress — Josephine von Stängel — in Switzerland. 

It was little wonder, then, that the rate of Puccini’s operatic production had slowed down. But he did manage his operetta La rondine, eventually premiered in Monte-Carlo in 1917, and there was his miraculous triptych of one-act operas, Il trittico, first staged at New York’s Metropolitan Opera in December 1918. If its final panel, that great comedy Gianni Schicchi, might have looked atypical for Puccini, it must have felt especially uplifting in the aftermath of the war. The other two parts of the trilogy are more typically Puccinian in a way — Il tabarro, a dark tale of jealousy and murder on a Paris barge, and Suor Angelica, the heartbreaking tale of a nun banished to a convent and who poisons herself in order — as she sees it — to be reunited with the young son taken away from her first by her family and then by a fatal fever. 

Suor Angelica stands apart in Puccini’s output for its all-female cast. He always claimed it was his favourite of the triptych and was annoyed when it became the first to be discarded of the three. Easy though it is to see why Gianni Schicchi has remained more popular than its companion pieces, Suor Angelica breathes a very special atmosphere and showcases two great roles for singing actors — Angelica herself and her cruel-hearted aunt, the Zia Principessa. Puccini would doubtless be pleased to see Wexford putting Suor Angelica back in its own spotlight.

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