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Afternoon on 3: Thursday Opera Matinee: Puccini's Il Trittico

Afternoon Concert: Thursday Opera Matinee: Puccini's Il Trittico: Part 1: Puccini - Il Tabarro

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Puccini - Il Tabarro

Part 1 Part 1: Puccini - Il Tabarro

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Ian Skelly presents a Royal Opera House performance from 2011 of Puccini's Il Tabarro.

Ian Skelly presents a Royal Opera House performance from 2011 of Puccini's Il Tabarro, the first part of Il Trittico. Starring soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek.

Presented by Ian Skelly.
Across the next three Thursday Opera matinees, there's another chance to hear Puccini's Il Trittico from the Royal Opera House production in 2011. Puccini's triple bill comprises three contrasting one-act operas encompassing lust, murder, faith, romance and comedy. In Il Tabarro, Eva-Maria Westbroek sings the role of Giorgetta, whose affair with a deckhand provokes her husband to murder. Next week - Suor Angelica.

Puccini: Il Tabarro

Michele ..... Lucio Gallo (Baritone)
Luigi ..... Aleksandrs Antonenko (Tenor)
Tinca ..... Alan Oke (Tenor)
Talpa ..... Jeremy White (Bass)
Giorgetta ..... Eva-Maria Westbroek (Soprano)
Venditore ..... Ji-Min Park (Tenor)
Frugola ..... Irina Mishura (Mezzo-soprano)

Royal Opera House Orchestra
Royal Opera House Chorus
Conductor Antonio Pappano

Followed by more performances by the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra:

3pm
Prokofiev
Violin Concerto No.2 in G minor, Op.63
Gil Shaham (violin)
San Francisco Symphony
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)

3.30pm
CPE Bach
Symphony No.4 in G, Wq.180
San Francisco Symphony
Ton Koopman (conductor)

3.45pm
Prokofiev
Symphony No.3
San Francisco Symphony
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor).

Afternoon Concert: Thursday Opera Matinee

Thursday Opera Matinee

Afternoon Concert: Thursday Opera Matinee: Puccini's Il Trittico

Puccini's Il Trittico

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The three parts of Puccini's Il Trittico from the 2011 Royal Opera House production

Puccini's Il Trittico from the 2011 Royal Opera House production. This triple-bill comprises three contrasting one-act operas encompassing lust, murder, faith, romance and comedy

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