Il tabarro
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| Title: | Il tabarro |
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| Original language: | Italian |
| Music: | Giacomo Puccini |
| Libretto : | Giuseppe Adami |
| Literary source: | La Houppelande by Didier Gold |
| Premiere: | December 14, 1918 |
| Place of premiere: | Metropolitan Opera , New York City |
| Playing time: | about an hour |
| Place and time of the action: | Paris, around 1910 |
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Il tabarro ("The Coat") is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini . The composer combined them with the two one-act plays Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi to Il triptych ("The Triptych"), which was premiered with the three works in the order described above on December 14, 1918 at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City . Giuseppe Adami wrote the libretto based on the play La Houppelande by the French author Didier Gold.
background
Giacomo Puccini wanted to write a cycle, the Trittico , which would perform a tragic, a lyrical (Suor Angelica) and a cheerful piece (Gianni Schicchi) in one evening. Il tabarro forms the tragic first act.
action
The opera is set in Paris around 1910 .
Location: a barge on the banks of the Seine
The gray-haired skipper Michele loves his young wife Giorgetta, who also swears her love for him, but actually started a relationship with the fire-fighting worker Luigi after the death of their child. Giorgetta and Luigi arrange a nightly meeting on Michele's tractor. In the evening, Michele unsuccessfully asks his wife to go back to the happy times of the past and give their marriage a new chance. But Giorgetta pretends to be tired and wants to go to bed.
Michele, whose worst suspicions have now been confirmed, is desperate and calls his wife a whore. He stays on deck. When he unconsciously uses the agreed identification mark, he discovers Luigi and strangles him. Then he wraps the corpse in the coat he used to warm his wife in better days. When Giorgetta hears something and therefore comes on deck, Michele asks her to sit down with him again under his coat. With reproachful words he then shows her the corpse of her lover. Giorgetta cries out and the curtain falls.
Web links
- Il tabarro : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
- Il tabarro (Giacomo Puccini) in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna
- Il tabarro , opera guide
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ernst Krause: Oper - Ein Opernführer, 3rd edition, Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig, p. 403
Le Villi (1884) | Edgar (1889) | Manon Lescaut (1893) | La Bohème (1896) | Tosca (1900) | Madama Butterfly (1904) | La fanciulla del West (1910) | La rondine (1917) | Iltretico (1918) consisting of Il tabarro , Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi | Turandot (1926)