- Gianni Schicchi, a one-act opera from Puccini’s Il Trittico (“The Tryptich”), premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in New York on Dec. 14, 1918.
- The libretto of Gianni Schicchi was developed from several lines in Dante’s Inferno, canto XXX:32-2, 42-5. The poem mentions the spirit of Gianni Schicchi, a trickster who faked the will of Buoso Donati.1
O mio babbino caro
- Aria translation and context from The Aria Database
Sources
- Michele Girardi, “Puccini, Giacomo (ii),” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed December 26, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-6002278242.
Cut IDs
14963, 45561