This week we have the first opera of Giacomo Puccini's’ Il Tritico, Il Tabarro.
On a barge moored in the Seine in Paris at sunset, Giorgetta suggests that Michele should offer the stevedores a drink. While he is gone, she dances with the men, most closely with Luigi; but the dancing stops as Michele returns. Michele pleas with Giorgetta for a renewal of their love, but she avoids him. Later, Michele sees her still dressed and is suspicious. He lights his pipe, unwittingly giving the safe signal agreed between Giorgetta and Luigi, who now steals aboard to be strangled by the wronged husband. Michele hides the body under his cloak, and when his wife comes to him, he opens it, to reveal the body of her lover.
Listen at 8 pm.
