Suor Angelica

Opera

Writers: Giacomo Puccini Giovacchino Forzano

Context

Suor Angelica is the second of Puccini’s set of three one-act operas called Il trittico, the others being Il tabarro and Gianni Schicchi. In searching for a subject, Puccini wanted something which would contrast with the deception and murder of Il tabarro saying: “It is this that I am look­ing for: some­thing that will be some­what ele­vated, and give me an oppor­tu­nity to write music that will take wing”. When Forzano offered him a story set in a convent it struck true with Puccini through his personal connection with convent life; his sister had taken up Holy Orders at the Convent of

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