Name: Suor Angelica
Start: 2016-03-08
End: 2016-03-08
Location: Royal Opera House

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Soprano

Ermonela Jaho

Sister Angelica

Contralto

Anna Larsson

The Princess

Mezzo-soprano

Irina Mishura

The Abbess

Elena Zilio

Sister Zelatrice

Elizabeth Sikora

The Mistress of the novices

Jennifer Davis

The nursing sister

Emily Edmonds

The alms sisters

Lauren Fagan

Sister Genovieffa

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Nicola Luisotti

Stage director

Richard Jones

Costume designer

Nicky Gillibrand

Set designer

Ultz

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Suor Angelica -  (Sister Angelica)

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Ermonela Jaho as the title role sings 'Senza mamma' from Suor Angelica, the second in Puccini's trio of operas Il trittico. Find out more at http://www.roh.org.uk/productions/suo...


The second installment in Giacomo Puccini’s triptych of operas, Il trittico, is characterized by music of ethereal and spiritual beauty, in contrast to the dark melodrama of Il tabarro and the gutsy comedy of Gianni Schicchi. It was first performed in 1918 at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, as part of the first complete performance of Il trittico, one month after the end of World War I.

Director Richard Jones sets Angelica’s story in a mid-20th-century children’s hospital, where the sisters tend to their young patients on a busy ward – a painful reminder of Angelica’s own child. Suor Angelica contains some of Puccini’s most poignant music, including Angelica’s aria ‘Senza mamma’, in which she expresses her grief after receiving the devastating news that her son, whom she has not seen since being imprisoned by her family in a convent, has died.

Suor Angelica – 'Senza mamma' (Ermonela Jaho, The Royal Opera)

Sister Angelica by Puccini, Tue 08 Mar 2016, From (2016/2016), Directed by Richard Jones,, Conductor Nicola Luisotti, Royal Opera House, London, United Kingdom

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