Il trittico

IL TABARRO - SUOR ANGELICA - GIANNI SCHICCHI: An Opera Triptych by Giacomo Puccini

13
Friday
October
19:30 - 23:00
C-Prices: € 100,00 / € 82,00 / € 58,00 / € 34,00 / € 24,00
Information about the work

IL TABARRO
[The Coat]
Libretto by Giuseppe Adami

SUOR ANGELICA
[Sister Angelica]
Libretto by Giovacchino Forzano

GIANNI SCHICCHI
Libretto by Giovacchino Forzano

First performed in New York on 14 December 1918
Premiere at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on 30 September 2023

3 hrs 30 mins / one interval

In Italian with German and English surtitles

Pre-performance lecture (in German): 45 minutes prior to each performance

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Cast
Il tabarro
Suor Angelica
Gianni Schicchi
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Presented by rbb Kultur and taz. Supported by Förderkreis der Deutschen Oper Berlin e. V.

13
Friday
October
19:30 - 23:00
C-Prices: € 100,00 / € 82,00 / € 58,00 / € 34,00 / € 24,00
Cast
Il tabarro
Suor Angelica
Gianni Schicchi
the content

About the work
No work of Puccini’s is more focused on a period of upheaval and the quest for new social models than his 3-act opera IL TRITTICO, which premiered in 1918. Since 1900 Puccini had been toying and experimenting with a new approach to the subject: combining three 1-act operas into a single whole, in which fragmentation rather than a single integral unit is key. Here he amalgamates three distinct “inks”, a trio of different colours and temperatures, which themselves capture the essence of early-20th-century Italian opera. We have IL TABARRO (The Coat), which sketches a sombre and tragic menage-à-trois in the Parisian barge-traffic milieu. The protagonists move in cramped and parochial circles, where dreams and yearnings are repressed and not talked about. Clashes erupt, emotional scars are laid bare and the solution lies only in destruction, viz. a brutal murder motivated by jealousy. The second opera in the series, SUOR ANGELICA, is one of a kind in the history of opera, having a cast made up entirely of women. The theme is again love and death and the options open to the characters. Angelica, a nun, believes suicide to be the last avenue open to her in her attempt to escape an existence controlled and determined by others. Finally GIANNI SCHICCHI, a wickedly humorous grotesque in the commedia dell’arte vein, centres on individuals as gamblers and fraudulent materialists.


About the production
The young, award-winning director Pınar Karabulut is known to Deutsche Oper Berlin audiences for her spectacular staging of Turnage’s modern Oedipus opera, GREEK, on the parking deck of the opera house. Karabulut was also invited to present a piece that she had directed at the Münchener Kammerspiele. With IL TRITTICO she now has a work in the main auditorium of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, staging three separate operas as theatre of the world, made up of different colours and temperatures on a rotating stage.

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DEC

Adventsverlosung: Das 10. Fensterchen

Before Tobias Kratzer's third production of INTERMEZZO premieres on our stage in April 2024, you can win his debut production for your home DVD collection in today's Advent calendar: Alexander von Zemlinsky's DER ZWERG.

In today's Advent calendar window, we are giving away two DVDs of the Naxos recording of Alexander von Zemlinsky's opera DER ZWERG, which was nominated for the GRAMMY in the "Best Opera Recording" category and is one of the most successful new DVD productions of recent years. If you would like to take part in the prize draw, please send an e-mail today to advent@deutscheoperberlin.de with the subject line "The 10th window".

A vain, superficial princess - a dwarf artist: the protagonists could hardly be more different, but the story only becomes a tragedy when the dwarf, unaware of his appearance, misinterprets the mockery of court society as a sign of honour and the princess's coquetry as proof of love. When he finally recognises himself in the mirror, he cannot escape the glances of the others - and collapses dead. This fairy tale about an outsider has had biographical parallels in mind since its premiere: Zemlinsky was small and rather slight in stature and suffered from his brief but passionate affair with Alma Schindler for the rest of his life. A quarter of a century of trauma management passed between the liaison in Vienna and the first performance in Cologne, during which the once renowned artist gradually found himself sidelined: too avant-garde for the traditionalists, too traditional for the avant-garde ... Experience David Butt Philip, Mick Morris Mehnert, Elena Tsallagova and Emily Magee in the main roles under the musical direction of Sir Donald Runnicles in a production by Tobias Kratzer.

We would like to thank the Naxos label for the great collaboration of recent years, which - in addition to Zemlinsky's DER ZWERG - has documented recordings of DAS WUNDER DER HELIANE, FRANCESCA DA RIMINI, DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN, DER SCHATZGRÄBER and DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG, as well as ARABELLA and ANTIKRIST in the course of 2024.

Closing date: 10 December 2023, the winners will be informed by email on 11 December 2023. The DVDs will then be sent by post. Legal recourse is excluded.