150th Anniversary of the Birth of Giacomo Puccini October 12, 2008

Time: 2008/10/12
Venue: Forbidden City Music Hall
Price: 50/180/280/380/480
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Shanghai Opera Company
Zhang Guoyong, conductor
Kingman Lo, director

Giacomo Puccini: Three One-Act Operas Il tabarro / Suor Angelica / Gianni Schicchi

Il tabarro
Xiaoyong Yang (Michele)
Song Wei (Luigi)
Xintong Li (Giorgetta)
Iltabarro (The Cloak) is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to anItalian libretto by Giuseppe Adami, based on Didier Gold's La Houppelande. It is the first of the trio of operas known as Il trittico. First performance: Metropolitan Opera, New York City, 1918.

Suor Angelica
Xiaoying Xu (Angelica)
Rui Chen (Principessa)
Suor Angelica (Sister Angelica)is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an original Italianlibretto by Giovacchino Forzano. It is the second opera of the trio ofoperas known as Il trittico. It received its world premiere at theMetropolitan Opera on December 14, 1918.

Gianni Schicchi
Feng Zhang (Gianni Schicchi)
Huiyong Zhang/ Yufei Xiong (Lauretta)
Liming Chi (Rinuccio)
GianniSchicchi is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an Italianlibretto by Giovacchino Forzano, based on a story that is referred toin Dante's The Divine Comedy. It is the third of the trio of operasknown as Il trittico. First performance: Metropolitan Opera, New York City, 1918.
Theopera is best known for the soprano aria, O mio babbino caro ("Oh, mydear papa"), which has featured in a number of movies and other works.

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