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Baritone

Lucio Gallo

Gianni Schicchi

Soprano

Susanna Hurrell

Lauretta

Tenor

Paolo Fanale

Rinuccio

Contralto

Elena Zilio

Zita

Carlo Bosi

Gherardo

Rebecca Evans

Nella

Bass

Gwynne Howell

Simone

Jeremy White

Betto di Signa

David Kempster

Marco

Mezzo-soprano

Marie McLaughlin

La Ciesca

Matteo Peirone

Maestro Spinelloccio

Tiziano Bracci

Ser Amantio di Nicolao

David Shipley

Guccio

Conductor

Nicola Luisotti

Stage director

Richard Jones

Set designer

John Macfarlane

Costume designer

Nicky Gillibrand

Lighting designer

Mimi Jordan Sherin

Choreographer

Lucy Burge

Royal Opera House

Italian

London

United Kingdom

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Ekaterina Siurina as Lauretta sings this much-loved aria from Gianni Schicchi, the third of Puccini's trio of operas, Il trittico. Recorded at the Royal Opera House in 2011. Find out more at http://www.roh.org.uk/productions/gia...


Giacomo Puccini created Gianni Schicchi – the final work in his contrasting triple bill of operas, Il trittico – from a ‘desire to laugh and make others laugh’. It is his last comedy and its robust humour recalls some of the great Italian comic operas of the 19th century, such as Giuseppe Verdi’s Falstaff. Puccini based the opera on a passage from Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy, and engaged writer Giovacchino Forzano to create the libretto.

Richard Jones’s production places the action in Italy in the mid-20th century and John Macfarlane’s designs provide a lively backdrop for the twists and turns of the plot. The score displays a kaleidoscope of different musical styles, including Lauretta’s famous aria, ‘O mio babbino caro’, in which she begs her father to intervene to help her marry her sweetheart Rinuccio, and the grand comic ensemble in which Schicchi impersonates the dying Buoso and remakes his will.

'O mio babbino caro' from Gianni Schicchi (Ekaterina Siurina, The Royal Opera)

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