OPERA FILMS:
SUOR ANGELICA & IL TABARRO Salzburg Festival 2022
Two One-Act Puccini Operas
In Suor Angelica the perspective has narrowed to the tragic fate of a single figure, the young nun Angelica. Banished to the convent for an indiscretion, she leads a joyless existence and waits for news of her son, whom she has been forbidden to see since his birth. When she learns that he has died, she resolves to put an end to her life. The climax of the opera is an extended monologue lasting 20 minutes in which Angelica works through her doubts as a devout Catholic and frees herself from her feelings of guilt and remorse. In a redemptive ending she finally transcends all her pain and escapes her agony. With a radiant finale Puccini opens up a path for her into the spheres of celestial paradise. “Overwhelming” Opernwelt
- Composer: Giacomo Puccini
- Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst
- Orchestra: Wiener Philharmoniker
- Artists: Asmik Grigorian, Karita Mattila, Hanna Schwarz, Enkelejda Shkosa, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor
- Production year: 2022
- Run time: 01:05:00
- Director: Stage Director: Christof Loy
- Producers: ORF, NHK, UNITEL, ZDF, Arte, Wiener Philharmoniker, Salzburg Festival
In Il tabarro (‘The Cloak’), surrounded by the decaying miasma of the river Seine, we have arrived in purgatory on earth. Puccini sets the piece in the present day, in Paris, in a realistic, Simenon-like milieu of stevedores, drinkers, and whores. In an oppressive atmosphere of hopelessness a love triangle arises between Giorgetta, her husband – the barge owner Michele – and his stevedore Luigi. Giorgetta is a woman with a history: she’s a mother who has lost a child and whose marriage is on the verge of breakdown. She starts an affair with Luigi, which gives her a momentary escape from the bleakness of her everyday life… Il tabarro fathoms the entire unremitting darkness of human existence. “Grigorian’s final scene, which milks the unexpected poignancy of her simply changing in front of us from her habit into a sleek black cocktail dress and letting down her hair, is just as wrenching.” The New York Times
- Composer: Giacomo Puccini
- Conductor: Franz Welser-Möst
- Orchestra: Wiener Philharmoniker
- Artists: Roman Burdenko, Asmik Grigorian, Joshua Guerrero, Andrea Giovannini, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor
- Production year: 2022
- Run time: 00:55:00
- Director: Stage Director: Christof Loy
- Producers: ORF, NHK, UNITEL, ZDF, Arte, Wiener Philharmoniker, Salzburg Festival
Saturday, March 29th
1:30pm
Jarvis Conservatory
Tickets are $20
