Name: Suor Angelica
Start: 2024-09-27T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-09-27T00:00:00.000Z
Location: London Coliseum

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English National Opera

Conductor

Corinna Niemeyer

Stage director

Annilese Miskimmon

Translator

Amanda Holden

Soprano

Sinéad Campbell Wallace

Sister Angelica

Contralto

Christine Rice

The Princess

Mezzo-soprano

Madeleine Shaw

The Abbess

Gaynor Keeble

The Mistress of the novices

Alexandra Oomens

Sister Genovieffa

Lea Shaw

The Monitress

English

Suor Angelica -  (Sister Angelica)

London

United Kingdom

London Coliseum

Public

Sharan Allad

Approved

Suor Angelica is a heart-rending story of a young mother separated from her illegitimate child by her aristocratic family and confined to a convent. One of Puccini’s rawest creations, the opera takes us on an extraordinary emotional journey.

The story of Suor Angelica
When she is forced by her family to join a convent, Angelica’s life is reduced to the confines of its walled garden. In this rose-scented cage, she is tormented by the love and life she was robbed of. Doubt consumes her as she questions her faith and tries to forgive herself and her family. A moment of crisis comes when she is visited by her aunt carrying devastating news of her son.

The score of Suor Angelica
In Puccini’s profoundly moving score, the opera captures the searching, questioning nature of grief and the possibility or impossibility of forgiveness. Indeed the aria ‘Senza mamma’ (‘Sweetest love, you died without your mother’), is one of the most poignant Puccini ever wrote.

The singers of Suor Angelica
Sister Angelica is sung by Olivier Award-nominated soprano, Sinead Campbell-Wallace. Christine Rice, one of the leading mezzo-sopranos of her generation, sings the role of Angelica’s main tormentor, her aunt the Princess. Meanwhile, former Harewood artists, Alexandra Oomens and Madeleine Shaw, sing Sister Genovieffa and The Abbess respectively.

The production is directed by ENO’s Artistic Director, Annilese Miskimmon, and conducted by Corinna Niemeyer, Artistic and Music Director of the Orchestre de Chambre du Luxembourg, who is making her ENO debut. English translation by Amanda Holden.

Sister Angelica by Puccini, Fri 27 Sep 2024, From (2024/2024), Directed by Annilese Miskimmon,, Conductor Corinna Niemeyer, London Coliseum, London, United Kingdom

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