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Synopsis
Sister Angelica has been forced to enter a convent by her family, following a scandal. Her aunt, the Princess pays her first visit since Angelica entered the convent years ago, asking Angelica to sign over her inheritance to her younger sister. But the Princess comes with devastating news of Angelica’s illegitimate son, whom she has thought of every day since she entered the convent. Two years ago, at the age of five, the boy died. Overwhelmed with despair, Suor Angelica takes poison. Realising that suicide is a mortal sin, she prays to the Virgin Mary for forgiveness.
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Director Richard Jones sets Angelica’s story in a mid-20th-century children’s hospital, where the sisters tend to their young patients on a busy ward. Suor Angelica contains some of Puccini’s most poignant music, including Angelica’s aria ‘Senza mamma’, in which she expresses her grief after receiving devastating news.
Music of ethereal beauty
The second instalment in Giacomo Puccini’s triptych of operas, Il trittico is characterized by music of ethereal beauty, in contrast to the dark melodrama of Il tabarro and the riotous comedy of Gianni Schicchi. It was first performed in 1918 at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, as part of the first complete performance of Il trittico, one month after the end of World War I.
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