Il trittico (The Triptych) is the title of a collection of three one-act operas, Il tabarro, Suor Angelica, and Gianni Schicchi, by Giacomo Puccini. Il tabarro is based on the drama La Houppelande, by Didier Gold. Place: A barge on the Seine in Paris. Time: 1910. The opera is very dark and brooding, full of the violence and grit associated with verismo opera. Michele, the captain, recalls happier days when he would shelter his much younger wife Giorgetta and their son under his cloak. But when the son died, the relationship is broken. Michele finds out that Giorgetta is having an affair with...