Butler Opera Center: Il Trittico

Music by Giacomo Puccini

Libretto by Giuseppe Adami & Giovacchino Forzano

Douglas Kinney Frost, conductor

Il Tabarro 

Yingmeige Xiong, stage director 

Suor Angelica 

Madison Jackson, stage director 

Gianni Schicchi 

Beatrice Huang, stage director 

Sung in Italian with English with supertitles.

Like short stories, one-act operas pack a big punch! Puccini's last completed work was a triptych of these one-acts, telling three separate stories with one common theme: a hidden death. Il tabarro tells the story of a love triangle on a French barge. When jealousy strikes, who will survive? Puccini then transports us to a convent in Suor Angelica, where we meet a young nun, sent away in shame after giving birth out of wedlock. When her aunt appears, will she deliver news of redemption, or bring about even more pain? Gianni Schicchi closes the trilogy with a musical farce of the highest order. A greedy family hires trickster Gianni Schicchi to re-write the will of their wealthy patriarch, but does he really have their best interests in mind? All these characters, all these stories, all crafted by a composer at the pinnacle of his career.