Puccini: Il Trittico

[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... — Gramophone Magazine, October 2023 More…

Release Date: 28th Jul 2023
Catalogue No: 808908
Label: Unitel Editions

Presto Recording of the Week

28th July 2023
International Classical Music Awards

2024

Nominated - Video Opera
Presto Recordings of the Year

Winner 2023

DVD/Blu-ray of the Year

Puccini: Gianni Schicchi

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

Puccini: Il tabarro

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

Puccini: Suor Angelica

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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Recording of the Week, Puccini's Il Trittico from Salzburg

28th July 2023

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.

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.

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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.

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