by Luigi Speranza for "Gli Operai" jlsperanza@aol.com
Premiere: Met, Dec. 18, 1918.
Tenor: Giulio Crimi.
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LUIGI (in "Il tabarro"). Libretto: Adami, tratto da Gold, "Houppelande" (French for 'tabarro').
---- There is a duet Luigi/Giorgetta.
----. Puccini was involved in preparing the libretto.
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RINUCCIO de' DONATI(in "Gianni Schicchi") Libretto: Forzano. Set in 1299 (Dante, Inferno, Canto XXX). It is Rinuccio who finds the 'last will' of Donati, his uncle. He is betrothed to Lauretta Schicchi. It has a happy ending for Rinuccio.
Study of "Avete torto".
"Puccini's most truly Italian opera".
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"Puccini conceived Il Trittico as an indivisible whole."
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