#il trittico

[greencheekconure27]

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

people sitting down to listen to one of the most famous and beautiful arias ever: 😊

the aria: daddy if you don’t commit legal fraud so i can go ring shopping and marry my boyfriend i will go throw myself off a bridge 🥺😇

[itsa-me-cavaradossi]

Nothing like starting a recording of Il trittico for the express purpose of wallowing in Il tabarro levels of misery, only to end up bopping along to the derpy lil bassoon line at the beginning of Gianni Schicchi because the production unexpectedly flipped the order of the operas. :)

[a-treatise-on-velociraptors]

opera is so fucking funny because you'll listen to an aria like O Mio Babbino Caro and think "ah....the beauty of opera....the artistry of the voice...." and then the lyrics are her melodramatically saying "dad if you don't let me date this guy I'll throw myself into the river" and the broader context is they're all trying to weekend-at-bernies aforementioned guy's dead relative.

[yep-ishouldbesleeping]

Irama la parte di sopra, Bresh quella di sotto, Achille il soprabito

[muchadoabout]

About last night...

PUCCINI: IL TRITTICO – from right, Ambrogio Maestri, Lise Davidsen, Yonghoon Lee, Robert Jindra (C), Elsa Dreisig, Ermonela Jaho, Granit Musliu

[opera-ghosts]

OTD in Music History: Giacomo Puccini's (1858 - 1924) last completed opera, "Il trittico" ("The Triptych") -- which is actually a suite of three separate but thematically interrelated one-act operas all dealing with the concealment of death -- receives its world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City in 1918. (Puccini himself is not present.) The three one-act operas that make up "Il trittico" are "Il tabarro" ("The Cloak"), "Suor Angelica" ("Sister Angelica"), and "Gianni Schicchi." The first is a dark and brooding tragedy that features the gritty violence commonly associated with the "verismo" opera movement with which Puccini was closely identified early in his career. The second is an uplifting and melodramatically sentimental tale of religious redemption. The third is a broad farce dealing with themes of greed and deception. The critical reviews for "Il trittico" at its premiere were mixed; most critics agreed that "Gianni Schicchi" was the best of the three, and today it is by far the most frequently performed of the bunch. (Despite Puccini's clear intention that the trio should always be performed as a set, over the years it has also become quite common to break them up -- indeed, sometimes one of them will even be paired up with another one-act opera written by an entirely different composer.) PICTURED: An autograph letter that Puccini sent to his editor at the famous Ricordi music publishing house in 1919, heatedly passing along some corrections to errors that he had apparently found in the proof version of the first edition printed score of "Il trittico."

[visionfugitive]

one of the duets of all time ❤️‍🔥