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Puccini: Il Trittico
Asmik Grigorian (Lauretta/Giorgetta/Suor Angelica), Misha Kiria (Schicchi), Karita Mattila (La Zia Principessa), Roman Burdenko (Michele), Joshua Guerrero (Luigi), Alexey Neklyudov (Rinuccio)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Franz Welser-Möst, Christof Loy
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th July 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Video Opera
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023, DVD/Blu-ray of the Year
[in Suor Angelica] Grigorian holds the stage almost throughout; a performance of heartrending vocal beauty and equally potent vocal characterisation...You might feel Loy pushes it too far but...
Puccini: Il Trittico
Asmik Grigorian (Lauretta/Giorgetta/Suor Angelica), Misha Kiria (Schicchi), Karita Mattila (La Zia Principessa), Roman Burdenko (Michele), Joshua Guerrero (Luigi), Alexey Neklyudov (Rinuccio)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Franz Welser-Möst, Christof Loy
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Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th July 2023
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Video Opera
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023, DVD/Blu-ray of the Year
[in Suor Angelica] Grigorian holds the stage almost throughout; a performance of heartrending vocal beauty and equally potent vocal characterisation...You might feel Loy pushes it too far but...
About
Il trittico was premiered in New York on 14 December 1918, composed while the First World War was still raging in Europe. At first glance, the three one-act operas Gianni Schicchi, Il tabarro and Suor Angelica seem to have no connection with each other; their common denominator is solely the entanglement of man in a fateful destiny that only exceptionally, for a moment, seems to promise a happy outcome to the “adventure of life” - a set of themes that in its complexity seems to be in such good hands with few directors as with Christof Loy. The main female roles in the three opera acts are performed by the Lithuanian soprano Asmik Grigorian, a very rare and tremendous feat, but once again connects the works to each other.
Contents and tracklist
- Misha Kiria (Gianni Schicchi), Asmik Grigorian (Lauretta), Alexey Neklyudov (Rinuccio), Enkelejda Shkosa (Zita), Lavinia Bini (Nella), Caterina Piva (La Ciesca), Dean Power (Gherardo), Iurii Samoilov (Marco), Scott Wilde (Simone), Manel Esteve Madrid (Betto di Signa), Daniel Fussek (Gherardino), Matteo Peirone (Maestro Spinelloccio), Mikołaj Trąbka (Ser Amantio di Nicolao), Leopold Böhm (Buoso Donati), Salzburger Festspiele
- Wiener Philharmoniker
- Franz Welser-Möst
- Asmik Grigorian (Giorgetta), Roman Burdenko (Michele), Joshua Guerrero (Luigi), Enkelejda Shkosa (La frugola), Andrea Giovannini (Il Tinca), Scott Wilde (IlTalpa), Dean Power (Venditore di canzonette/Amante), Martina Russomanno (Amante)
- Wiener Philharmoniker
- Franz Welser-Möst
- Asmik Grigorian (Suor Angelica), Karita Mattila (La Zia Principessa), Hanna Schwarz (La Badessa), Enkelejda Shkosa (La Zelatrice), Giulia Semenzato (Suor Genovieffa), Caterina Piva (La Maestra delle Novizie), Martina Russomanno (Suor Osmina), Daryl Freedman (Suor Dolcina)
- Wiener Philharmoniker
- Franz Welser-Möst
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Puccini's Il Trittico from Salzburg
Asmik Grigorian stakes her claim as one of the finest singing actresses of today in Christof Loy’s coherent, uncluttered staging of Puccini’s trilogy of one-act operas - culminating in a devastating interpretation of Suor Angelica.
Awards and reviews
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Presto Recording of the Week28th July 2023
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International Classical Music Awards2024Nominated - Video Opera
October 2023
[in Suor Angelica] Grigorian holds the stage almost throughout; a performance of heartrending vocal beauty and equally potent vocal characterisation...You might feel Loy pushes it too far but you’re unlikely to look at these three operas in quite the same light again, and that alone would make this production worth seeing.
28th July 2023
Loy’s decision to reorder the operas is the one idiosyncratic element in a production that’s otherwise fairly straight-down-the-line. The main event is a performance of Suor Angelica which packs a punch so powerful that Loy’s reshuffling of the trilogy seems non-negotiable...Grigorian’s Angelica is quite simply in a league of its own: from the moment when the dam bursts during the great confrontation with her aunt she stakes her claim as one of the greatest singing actresses since Callas.
