Organization

La Monnaie/De Munt

Conductor

Pinchas Steinberg

Stage director

Tobias Kratzer

Set designer

Set designer (+1)

Rainer Sellmaier

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Bernd Purkrabek

Video

Stage director (+1)

Manuel Braun

Chorusmaster

Chorusmaster (+3)

Claudio Fenoglio

Chorusmaster (+2)

Ulisse Trabacchin

Baritone (+2)

Roberto Frontali

Michele

Tenor

Samuele Simoncini

Luigi

Tenor (+1)

Roberto Covatta

Tinca

Soprano (+2)

Elena Stikhina

Giorgetta

Soprano (+3)

Lucrezia Drei

A female lover

Tenor (+4)

Matteo Mezzaro

A male lover

Contralto (+2)

Annunziata Vestri

La Frugola

Sister Angelica

Mezzo-soprano (+2)

Anna Maria Chiuri

The Princess

Tineke Van Ingelgem

The Mistress of the novices

Baritone (+3)

Roberto Accurso

Maestro Spinelloccio

Ser Amantio di Nicolao

La Ciesca

Gherardo

Mezzo-soprano (+4)

Elena Zilio

Zita

Lauretta

Rinuccio

Gianni Schicchi

Soprano

Annelies Kerstens

Sister Osmina

Sister Genovieffa

Sister Zelatrice

The nursing sister

Teatro Regio di Torino

Orchestra

Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino

Chorus

Children's Chorus Teatro Regio Torino

Coro del Teatro Regio di Torino

Enrico Maria Piazza

A song seller

Ksenia Chubunova

Sister Dolcina

Irina Bogdanova

Nella

Bass (+3)

Tyler Zimmerman

Betto di Signa

Andres Cascante

Marco

Gianfranco Montresor

Talpa

Simone

Monica Bacelli

The Abbess

First alms sister

Soprano (+1)

Emma Posman

First novice

First lay sister

Revival Stage Director

Ludivine Petit

Revival Set Designer

Costume designer (+2)

Clara Hertel

Revival Costume Designer

Revival Lighting Designer

Lighting designer (+1)

Gianni Bertoli

Assistant Video Designer

Jonas Dahl

Janic Bebi

Child vocalist (+2)

Matthias Piro

Daniela Valdenassi

Second alms sister

Lyudmyla Porvatova

Second lay sister

Three nuns

Jang Eun Young

Laura Lanfranchi

Mezzo-soprano (+1)

Caterina Borruso

Lourdes Martins

“Renew yourself or die”. Faithful to his motto, between 1913 and 1915 Puccini composed three one-act operas which differed from each other due to their setting, plot and musical style. The first is Il Tabarro, a tragedy of passion and jealousy that takes place in Paris, at the beginning of the twentieth-century, among the sailors of the Seine. The second, Suor Angelica, is a moving drama for female voices only: the protagonist is a woman who, forced by her family to take the vows, dreams of seeing her child again. Finally, Gianni Schicchi, whose black humour celebrates the greatest con man in Florence, condemned by Dante to Hell and redeemed here by his love for his daughter.

The three one-act operas are often performed separately, but Puccini saw them as a unitary path from darkness to light, the final effect of which is much more powerful than the simple sum of their parts. Il Trittico will be directed by Pinchas Steinberg, in his welcome return to the Regio. The new staging designed by Tobias Kratzer reinterprets the triad in modern key, enhancing the differences and, at the same time, creating cross-references and connections. The protagonist of Tabarro and of Gianni Schicchi will be the baritone Roberto Frontali, while Elena Stikhina and Anna Maria Chiuri will play the roles of Suor Angelica and the Aunt Princess.


Pinchas Steinberg conductor
Tobias Kratzer direction
Rainer Sellmaier sets and costumes
Bern Purkrabek lighting
Manuel Braun video
Claudio Fenoglio children chorus master
Ulisse Trabacchin chorus master
Orchestra and Chorus Teatro Regio Torino
Children's Chorus Teatro Regio Torino
New staging Teatro Regio Torino in coproduzione con il Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie di Bruxelles

Il tabarro
Dramma in one act | Libretto by Giuseppe Adami

Michele baritone - Roberto Fontali
Luigi tenor - Samuele Simoncini
Giorgetta soprano - Elena Stikhina
La Frugola mezzo-soprano - Annunziata Vestri
Il Tinca tenor - Roberto Covatta
Il Talpa baritone - Gianfranco Montresor
Giovane amante soprano - Lucrezia Drei
Giovane amante tenor - Matteo Mezzaro
Venditore di canzoni tenor - Enrico Maria Piazza°

Gianni Schicchi
Opera in one act | Libretto by Giovacchino Forzano

Gianni Schicchi baritone  - Roberto Frontali
Lauretta soprano - Lucrezia Drei
Zita contralto - Elena Zilio
Rinuccio tenor - Matteo Mezzaro
Gherardo tenor - Roberto Covatta
Nella soprano - Irina Bogdanova°
Gherardino - voce bianca
Betto di Signa bass - Tyler Zimmerman°
Simone baritone - Gianfranco Montresor
Marco baritone - Andres Cascante°
La Ciesca mezzo-soprano - Tineke Van Ingelgem
Maestro Spinelloccio and Ser Amantio di Nicolao baritone - Roberto Accurso

Suor Angelica
Opera in one act | Libretto by Giovacchino Forzano

Suor Angelica soprano - Elena Stikhina
La zia principessa contralto - Anna Maria Chiuri
La badessa mezzo-soprano - Monica Bacelli
La suora zelatrice mezzo-soprano - Annunziata Vestri
La maestra delle novizie and La suora infermiera mezzo-soprano -  Tineke Van Ingelgem
Suor Genovieffa soprano - Lucrezia Drei
Suor Osmina soprano - Annelies Kerstens
Suor Dolcina and Seconda conversa soprano - Ksenia Chubunova°
Prima sorella cercatrice soprano - Irina Bogdanova°
Una novizia e Prima conversa soprano - Emma Posman

° solisti del Regio Ensemble

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