Gianni Schicchi

Giacomo Puccini

June 22, 26, 29, July 3, 6, 12, 14 at 7.30pm
Double Bill with Zanetto
July 14 at 2pm - The Christine Collins Young Artists performance

First performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York on 14 December 1918

Libretto by Giovacchino Foranzo after an episode in Dante's Divine Comedy

Sung in Italian with English surtitles
New production

Conductor Manlio Benzi
Director Martin Lloyd-Evans
Designer Susannah Henry
Lighting Designer Colin Grenfell

Gianni Schicchi Alan Opie
Lauretta Anna Patalong
Zita Carole Wilson
Rinuccio Jung Soo Yun
Gherardo Neal Cooper
Nella Sarah Redgwick
Betto Simon Wilding
Simone William Robert Allenby
Marco Charles Johnston
La Ciesca Catrin Johnsson
Master Spinelloccio Aidan Smith
Amantio di Nicolao John Lofthouse
Gherardino Niall Windass
Pinellino Dickon Gough
Guccio Mark Spyropoulos

With the City of London Sinfonia

Find out more about The Christine Collins Young Artists performance...

The first production at OHP of Puccini’s exquisite one-act comedy, the third and final part of his Il trittico. A bubbling score of fertile invention (whose most famous moment is the aria ‘O mio babbino caro’) tells the story of a man found in one of the lower circles of Dante’s Inferno: a Florentine parvenu who agrees to help out the noble Donati family when they have a spot of trouble with their rich, departed relation’s will… but Schicchi has his own agenda, as well as a daughter who wants to marry one of the Donatis.

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