Gianni Schicchi Puccini's Il Trittico
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MUSIC: "O Mio Babbino Caro" by Giacomo Puccini | 0:00:02 | 0:00:05 | |
Good evening and welcome. | 0:00:18 | 0:00:19 | |
Tonight, we'll be performing Puccini's comic masterpiece, | 0:00:19 | 0:00:23 | |
Gianni Schicchi. | 0:00:23 | 0:00:24 | |
It is the final opera in his triple bill called Il trittico, | 0:00:25 | 0:00:29 | |
written almost a century ago. | 0:00:29 | 0:00:31 | |
Gianni Schicchi is the opera to laugh out loud at, | 0:00:31 | 0:00:34 | |
to release the tension built up | 0:00:34 | 0:00:36 | |
after the two emotional tragedies that preceded it. | 0:00:36 | 0:00:40 | |
However, it's quite challenging to perform. | 0:00:41 | 0:00:44 | |
It has an hysterical libretto | 0:00:44 | 0:00:46 | |
and is full of sharply defined characters | 0:00:46 | 0:00:49 | |
and great vocal characterisation. | 0:00:49 | 0:00:52 | |
But, like any comedy, it's all about the timing. | 0:00:52 | 0:00:55 | |
'We have an incredible ensemble cast playing our noisy, squabbling, | 0:00:57 | 0:01:01 | |
'typically extended Italian family. | 0:01:01 | 0:01:03 | |
'Buoso Donati, a wealthy Florentine, is head of the family, | 0:01:05 | 0:01:09 | |
'but he's just about to take his dying breath. | 0:01:09 | 0:01:13 | |
'What follows is a panic to find the will | 0:01:13 | 0:01:15 | |
'so the family members can get their greedy hands on his inheritance.' | 0:01:15 | 0:01:19 | |
ALL: Bad luck for the monks, hope for us! | 0:01:19 | 0:01:23 | |
Lauretta, let's pin our hopes on my uncle's will! | 0:01:23 | 0:01:28 | |
Oh! No, that's not it. | 0:01:30 | 0:01:32 | |
'However, they soon discover they need to rely on the help | 0:01:32 | 0:01:35 | |
'of local trickster Gianni Schicchi, | 0:01:35 | 0:01:38 | |
'to mimic Buoso Donati's voice and deceive the lawyers.' | 0:01:38 | 0:01:42 | |
For Schicchi, I had to practise by myself to try | 0:01:42 | 0:01:46 | |
and discover a kind of voice that can be a voice of an old man. | 0:01:46 | 0:01:52 | |
Buoso Donati... | 0:01:52 | 0:01:56 | |
Because I put something to make a joke. | 0:01:56 | 0:02:00 | |
For example, the S, I make... | 0:02:00 | 0:02:03 | |
HISSING LISP ..something like that. | 0:02:03 | 0:02:06 | |
And the voice comes from... | 0:02:06 | 0:02:09 | |
DEEPENS VOICE ..this baritone voice until... | 0:02:09 | 0:02:12 | |
SINGS IN NASAL VOICE ..Buoso Donati! | 0:02:12 | 0:02:15 | |
Put it in the nose. | 0:02:15 | 0:02:17 | |
Master Buoso, good morning. | 0:02:17 | 0:02:20 | |
Oh! LAUGHTER | 0:02:20 | 0:02:23 | |
Is it you? | 0:02:23 | 0:02:25 | |
And in the midst of this comic mayhem, | 0:02:25 | 0:02:27 | |
there suddenly comes a jewel of an aria, | 0:02:27 | 0:02:29 | |
where time stops still for the perfect song, | 0:02:29 | 0:02:32 | |
one of Puccini's most famous, O Mio Babbino Caro, | 0:02:32 | 0:02:36 | |
Oh, My Dear Papa. | 0:02:36 | 0:02:38 | |
# Have pity, Daddy... # | 0:02:39 | 0:02:47 | |
For me, Puccini is a genius for everything he has done, | 0:02:48 | 0:02:52 | |
and you can feel that all over the world that Puccini is played. | 0:02:52 | 0:02:57 | |
It's so nice to enjoy the audience through comic things | 0:02:57 | 0:03:01 | |
and Schicchi is the kind of opera that everybody, | 0:03:01 | 0:03:06 | |
not only the role of Schicchi, | 0:03:06 | 0:03:09 | |
all roles of this work, of this job, | 0:03:09 | 0:03:12 | |
are so well delineated from Puccini. | 0:03:12 | 0:03:16 | |
'And in this production the music is matched by the intensity | 0:03:16 | 0:03:20 | |
'of both the garish 1960s bedroom set | 0:03:20 | 0:03:25 | |
'and the colourful Donati family, | 0:03:25 | 0:03:28 | |
'as they wait for the old man to breathe his last. | 0:03:28 | 0:03:31 | |
'It's like watching a great theatrical farce, | 0:03:31 | 0:03:34 | |
'or even a classic TV sitcom.' | 0:03:34 | 0:03:35 | |
CHATTER AND COMMOTION | 0:03:43 | 0:03:45 | |
WHIMPERING | 0:04:37 | 0:04:39 | |
Weeping. | 0:05:46 | 0:05:50 | |
Weeping. | 0:05:50 | 0:05:52 | |
Buoso, Buoso! | 0:05:52 | 0:05:54 | |
For the rest of our lives. | 0:05:54 | 0:05:58 | |
Already?! | 0:06:27 | 0:06:28 | |
That's what they're saying in Signa. | 0:06:28 | 0:06:31 | |
-What are they saying in Signa? -They're saying that... | 0:06:31 | 0:06:34 | |
No! | 0:06:38 | 0:06:40 | |
They're saying that... | 0:06:45 | 0:06:46 | |
Eh-h-h? | 0:06:48 | 0:06:49 | |
That's what they're saying in Signa. | 0:06:59 | 0:07:01 | |
It's what they're saying in Signa? | 0:07:45 | 0:07:48 | |
ALL: It's what they're saying in Signa! | 0:07:48 | 0:07:51 | |
What do you think? | 0:08:15 | 0:08:16 | |
ALL: Bad luck for the monks, hope for us! | 0:08:45 | 0:08:50 | |
HAMMERING AND BANGING | 0:09:38 | 0:09:41 | |
AUDIENCE LAUGHS | 0:11:41 | 0:11:43 | |
SWELLING STRINGS PLAY | 0:12:36 | 0:12:39 | |
SHE MOUTHS | 0:13:02 | 0:13:05 | |
ALL: No! | 0:13:22 | 0:13:24 | |
ALL: No! | 0:13:29 | 0:13:30 | |
SHE MOUTHS | 0:13:36 | 0:13:38 | |
THEY MOUTH | 0:13:41 | 0:13:44 | |
THEY GROAN | 0:13:49 | 0:13:51 | |
AUDIENCE LAUGHS | 0:14:05 | 0:14:08 | |
THEY LAUGH | 0:16:05 | 0:16:08 | |
AUDIENCE LAUGHS | 0:16:22 | 0:16:24 | |
SHE GROANS | 0:16:31 | 0:16:33 | |
AUDIENCE LAUGHS | 0:16:46 | 0:16:49 | |
KNOCK ON DOOR | 0:21:31 | 0:21:34 | |
FAMILY: No! No! | 0:21:36 | 0:21:38 | |
FAMILY: No! No! | 0:21:39 | 0:21:41 | |
FAMILY: Oh! | 0:21:41 | 0:21:42 | |
AUDIENCE LAUGHS | 0:21:46 | 0:21:48 | |
Oh! | 0:22:15 | 0:22:16 | |
ARIA CONTINUES | 0:24:08 | 0:24:11 | |
TOY GUN FIRES | 0:24:22 | 0:24:24 | |
TOY GUN FIRES | 0:24:27 | 0:24:29 | |
APPLAUSE | 0:27:28 | 0:27:32 | |
KNOCK AT DOOR Huh! | 0:30:10 | 0:30:12 | |
ALL: Ssshh! | 0:30:31 | 0:30:33 | |
AUDIENCE LAUGHS GENTLY | 0:30:41 | 0:30:43 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:30:49 | 0:30:51 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:30:58 | 0:31:01 | |
IMPERSONATING MASTER BUOSO: | 0:31:10 | 0:31:12 | |
SHE WHOOPS EXCITEDLY | 0:34:10 | 0:34:12 | |
THEY ALL LAUGH | 0:36:23 | 0:36:25 | |
THEY ALL SING OVER ONE ANOTHER | 0:37:14 | 0:37:17 | |
BELLS TOLL | 0:37:17 | 0:37:19 | |
ALL SUDDENLY QUIETLY: | 0:37:19 | 0:37:20 | |
BELLS CONTINUE TO TOLL | 0:37:34 | 0:37:36 | |
HE GROWLS | 0:39:14 | 0:39:16 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:39:16 | 0:39:18 | |
LOUD KNOCKING AT DOOR | 0:43:56 | 0:43:57 | |
IMPERSONATING MASTER BUOSO: Oh! | 0:44:28 | 0:44:29 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:44:29 | 0:44:31 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:48:09 | 0:48:12 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:49:58 | 0:50:00 | |
ALL CRY OUT | 0:50:42 | 0:50:44 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:51:09 | 0:51:11 | |
LIGHT LAUGHTER | 0:57:51 | 0:57:52 | |
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING | 0:58:18 | 0:58:23 | |
So, Gianni Schicchi outwits everybody and has the last laugh. | 0:58:28 | 0:58:33 | |
The climax of the final opera in Puccini's Il trittico - | 0:58:33 | 0:58:36 | |
his series of one-act operas. | 0:58:36 | 0:58:38 | |
I hope you've enjoyed yourselves. | 0:58:40 | 0:58:41 | |
From me, Antonio Pappano, | 0:58:41 | 0:58:43 | |
and everyone here at the Royal Opera House, goodnight. | 0:58:43 | 0:58:46 | |
APPLAUSE AND CHEERING | 0:58:53 | 0:58:57 | |
CHEERING | 0:59:18 | 0:59:21 | |
Subtitles by Red Bee Media Ltd | 0:59:37 | 0:59:40 |