Gianni Schicchi | Community Opera – By Giacomo Puccini. Fast-paced comic opera of hijinks, duplicity and greed.
Based on the opera in one act, part of Il trittico, a collection of three one-act operas including Il tabarro, and Suor Angelica
Libretto by Giovacchino Forzano, revised and updated in a new version by Timothy Knapman.
First performance: The Metropolitan Opera, New York, USA, 1918
Performed in The Grain Store at Stonebridge, just off Wexford’s Quay front, where the audience will ‘promenade’ and move with the action, experiencing the opera by being a part of it and perhaps recognising themselves in it.
Tue 24, Fri 27 Oct & Fri 03 Nov at 17:30 and Mon 30 Oct at 20:00.
Readers are advised to check with the venue before relying on the details published here.
