GENRE Three one-act operas
LIBRETTO Il tabarro: Giuseppe Adami, after Didier Gold, La Houppelande

Suor Angelica: Giovacchino Forzano

Gianni Schicchi: Forzano, expanded from a few lines in Dante’s Inferno (xxx: 32-3, 42-5)
FIRST PERFORMED Metropolitan Opera House, New York, 4 December 1918
NOTES

                                                

 Puccini was unable to attend the premiere of Il trittico in New York because of the war. He had composed the triptych as an inseparable whole and later expressed disappointment when theaters began dropping Il tabarro or Suor Angelica. Following the first and second editions of the triple bill (in 1918 and 1919), Puccini continued to revise the scores of the first two operas. Thereafter, Ricordi issued separate versions of all three operas. Except for a German edition in 1920, the one-acts were never again published in a single volume.


PUBLICATION TITLE Il trittico Il Trittico Title Page 183 kB
VERSION First edition of the three operas
TYPE Italian piano and vocal score
EDITION Riduzione di Carlo Carignani
PUBLISHER G. Ricordi & C.
DATE 1918
PLATE NUMBER 117000
RICORDI STAMP 11.1918
VOLUME 403 pp.
HOPKINSON NUMBER 9A, 10A, 11A
GIFT OF John F. Flagg
NOTES This edition contains Puccini’s original versions of all three operas before he undertook considerable revisions and cuts (made principally in Il tabarro and Suor Angelica).


PUBLICATION TITLE Il tabarro Il tabarro Title Page 175 kB
VERSION Third version
TYPE Italian piano and vocal score
EDITION Riduzione di Carlo Carignani
PUBLISHER G. Ricordi & C., Milan
DATE 1919 (reprint 1944)
PLATE NUMBER 117404
RICORDI STAMP None
VOLUME 116 pp.
HOPKINSON NUMBER 9C (a) (variant)


PUBLICATION TITLE Sister Angelica Sister Angelica Title Page 138 kB
VERSION Fourth version
TYPE English-Italian edition
EDITION English version by Herbert Withers
PUBLISHER Ricordi & Co., (London) Ltd.
DATE 1930
PLATE NUMBER 121612
RICORDI STAMP 3.1930
VOLUME 105 pp.
HOPKINSON NUMBER 10C (c)
NOTES Above the list of characters is a half-page reproduction of the stage setting.


PUBLICATION TITLE Gianni Schicchi Gianni Schicchi Title Page 178 kB
VERSION Second version
TYPE French piano and vocal score
EDITION Version Française de Paul Ferrier. Réduction de Carlo Carignani.
PUBLISHER G. Ricordi & C. (Société Anonyme des Éditions Ricordi, Paris)
DATE 1921
PLATE NUMBER 118002
RICORDI STAMP 10.1921
VOLUME 179 pp.
HOPKINSON NUMBER 11B (c)


PUBLICATION TITLE Gianni Schicchi Gianni Schicchi Title Page 178 kB
VERSION Second version
TYPE English-Italian piano and vocal score
EDITION English version by Percy Pitt.
PUBLISHER G. Ricordi & Co. (New York)
DATE 1930
PLATE NUMBER 121158
RICORDI STAMP None
VOLUME 180 pp.
HOPKINSON NUMBER 11B (g)
NOTES Above the list of characters is a half-page reproduction of the stage setting.

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