Il Trittico

Three stories, three settings, three marvellous soundscapes … The impact is breathtaking!

Il trittico has been called Puccini’s greatest achievement. The last opera he completed, it is rarely performed in its entirety. When all three of its one-act operas are staged together, the experience is an emotional roller-coaster ride through everything opera can be.

Pacific Opera is thrilled to present the first Canadian production of this masterpiece in nearly 50 years.

Three operas … one mind-blowing work

• Il tabarro (The Cloak)
  A noir thriller of infidelity and suspicion. Over the course of a single night, a marriage comes to a brutal end.
• Suor Angelica (Sister Angelica)
  A lyric tragedy. In the confines of a convent, where all desire is considered a sin, a nun with a devastating secret struggles with anguish and guilt.
• Gianni Schicchi
  A wicked black comedy. A family squabbling over an inheritance get their comeuppance in this zany tale of greed and skullduggery.

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Creative Team

• Conductor: Timothy Vernon
• Director: Glynis Leyshon
• Set and Costume Designer: Pam Johnson
• Assistant Set and Costume Designer: Hannah Case
• Lighting Designer: Michael Walton
• Choreographer / Fight Director: Jacques Lemay
• Sound Designer: Brooke Maxwell
• Chorus Master / Associate Conductor: Giuseppe Pietraroia
• Répétiteur: Louise-Andrée Baril
• Stage Manager: Christopher Sibbald
• Assistant Stage Managers: Katerina Sokyrko, Jordan Guetter
• Apprentice Stage Manager: Becca Jorgensen

Cast

Il tabarro (The Cloak)

• Michele, a barge owner: Todd Thomas
• Giorgetta, Michele’s wife: Aviva Fortunata
• Luigi, a stevedore: Adam Luther
• Tinca, a stevedore: Owen McCausland
• Talpa, a stevedore: Thomas Goerz
• La Frugola, Talpa’s wife: Megan Latham
• Song Vendor: Jan van der Hooft
• Soprano: Chelsea Kutyn
• Tenor: Kieran Foss
• Young Couple: Caitlin Wood, Taylor Fawcett
• Chorus of stevedores and shopgirls

Suor Angelica (Sister Angelica)

• Suor Angelica: Aviva Fortunata
• Suor Genevieve: Lara Ciekiewicz
• The Princess, Angelica’s aunt: Megan Latham
• Abbess / Mistress of the Novices: Marion Newman
• The Monitor: Maria Soulis
• Alms Sister: Caitlin Wood
• Lay Sisters: Kyla Fradette and Rebekah Janzen
• Suor Osmina: Cheryl Pocklington
• Novices: Allison Ward and Emlyn Sheeley
• Suor Dolcina: Chelsea Kutyn
• Alms Sister: Ai Horton
• Vision: Evelyn Hawes
• Child: Max Webster
• Offstage Choir

Gianni Schicchi

• Gianni Schicchi: Todd Thomas
• Lauretta, Schicchi’s daughter: Lara Ciekiewicz
• Zita, Buoso’s cousin: Megan Latham
• Rinuccio, Zita’s nephew: Owen McCausland
• Gherardo, Buoso’s nephew: Adam Luther
• Nella, Gherardo’s wife: Aviva Fortunata
• Simone, Buoso’s cousin: Thomas Goerz
• Marco, Simone’s son: Jason Cook
• La Ciesca, Marco’s wife: Maria Soulis
• Betto, Buoso’s brother-in-law: Peter Monaghan
• Gherardino, Nella and Gherardo’s young son: Oscar Webster, Kai Lawrence
• Spinelloccio, a doctor: Jan van der Hooft
• Ser Amantio di Nicolao, a Notary: Geoffrey Schellenberg
• Pinellino, a cobbler: Dale Friesen
• Guccio, a dyer: Louis Dillon

With the Victoria Symphony and the Pacific Opera Chorus