Musica Lirica Opera Company will be performing Sister Angelica by Giacomo Puccini at St Paul’s Church on Monday 21st and Tuesday 22nd November 2011
Tickets are now on sale at £8.50, concessions £6.50 and under 16s are free. All performances begin at 7.30 pm Sister Angelica will be performed in English with orchestra. For further information, please call 01253 696990.
Sister Angelica, Puccini’s 2nd short opera from the trilogy known as “Il trittico” (the Triptych) was first produced at the Metropolitan Opera, New York in 1918. It tells of the unfortunate Angelica who, born of an aristocratic family, was sent to a convent 7 years previously due to her giving birth to an elligitimate child. Her aunt arrives on a visit in order gain a signature from Angelica renouncing her inheritance. In the course of the conversation it is revealed that her son has subsequently died. Angelica is distraught and resolves to kill herself.
Sister Anglica is a fast moving and dense work. Although rarely performed, it deserves a greater place in the repertoire than it currently holds. It’s music exhibits all the hallmarks of Puccini’s brilliant composition of sweeping melodies and exciting orchestration.
Musica Lirica has previously produced Gianni Schicchi, the 3rd 0pera in “the Triptych” and will perform the remaining opera, Il Tabarro (the Cloak), in 2013 with a view to staging the whole cycle one day in the future.
St Paul’s Church, Marton, provides a lovely setting for the opera, providing not only ambience but great acoustics.