Concerts in the Minorite Church
Philharmonic Ensemble / Les Orpheistes Orchestra
24, 30, 31 May / 7, 8, 14 June- Info & Tickets
Il tabarro is a gloomy marital drama set in the milieu of Parisian boatmen on the Seine: Grief for their deceased child stands between the couple Michele and Giorgetta, Giorgetta's affair with the worker Luigi ends in tragedy.
Suor Angelica, the "sentimental" story for which Giovacchino Forzano wrote the libretto, tells of the suffering of the eponymous nun, who draws her vitality from the memory of her son - the result of the "misstep" that brought her to this place - until she is robbed of this support.
For the comic third part, Gianni Schicchi, Forzano again adapted a short episode from Dante's Inferno: In order to obtain the inheritance of the rich Florentine Buoso Donati, his relatives instruct Gianni Schicchi to take his place and - as a supposedly dying man - dictate a will in their favor.