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S1 Ep1584: An audio described night at the opera with Puccini’s Il Trittico by Scottish opera


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Puccini’s El Trittico - three one act operas in one performance by Scottish opera in a co-production with Welsh National Opera of ‘El Trittico’ directed by Sir David McVicar in Glasgow and Edinburgh with audio description.

Puccini’s El Trittico a trio of one-act operas of love and loss, El Trittico runs the gamut from high drama and heart-breaking tragedy to devilish black comedy and farce. Il Tabarro (The Cloak) sees a wife trapped in a marriage she yearns to escape, Suor Angelica (Sister Angelica) an outsider forced into a life for which she has no vocation, and Gianni Schicchi a dysfunctional family caught in the snare of a shameless conman.

RNIB Connect Radio’s Toby Davey was joined by Helen Lambert one of Scottish Opera’s Audio Describers to find out a bit more about the two up-coming described performances of El Trittico. 

Hellen began by giving Toby a bit of background to the story of each of the three operas, an idea of how the set and costumes will look and what the whole Scottish opera audio described experience would be like for blind and partially sighted people coming to the two up-coming described performances in Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Puccini’s El Trittico will be audio described at the Theatre Royal, Glasgow on Saturday 18 March and also at the Festival Theatre, Edinburgh on Saturday 25 March with both performances at 6pm with Touch Tours starting at 4.30pm.

More details about these and other Scottish Opera audio described performances can be found by visiting-
https://www.scottishopera.org.uk/access

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