“[…] But there is an offering that I cannot make… To the gentle mother of mothers, I cannot offer to forget… my son, my son! My child. The newborn baby who was taken from me, whom I only saw and kissed once! My baby, my lost baby… These are the words that I have been invoking for seven years […] ”. - EXTRACT FROM SUOR ANGELICA , RETURN OF THE QUEST (SUOR ANGELICA)
Here are two crossed stories which are answered eight years apart and which emanate from the greatest protagonists of the Italian verist scene, Giordano and Puccini. At the center of the subject, two young mothers in tears, forced to abandon their illegitimate child and upset to learn of their death soon ... Two dazzling and edifying tragedies which allow their authors an introspection of the most intimate recesses of the human soul ... With Mese Mariano ( The Month of Mary ), in 1910, Giordano condenses an unchanging trajectory and leads us, in a good and deeply moving half hour, in the simplicity of “vinti dalla vita” (the vanquished of life). As for Puccini, with Suor Angelica , this famous part of the Tritticopremiered in New York one evening in 1918, he seized the opportunity to entrust the odious princess, Angelica's aunt, the only important role of viola and one of the rare evil female incarnations of all his production ...
