🎭 Operísima México presents Gianni Schicchi
Puccini’s hilarious comic opera comes to Teatro Ángela Peralta
November 9, 10 & 11, 2026 • San Miguel de Allende
Intrigue, family entanglements, and a whole lot of humor, where nothing is what it seems.
When a wealthy man dies and his scheming relatives scramble for the inheritance, one clever trickster turns the tables. It’s one act of pure Puccini fun, and it includes the beloved aria “O mio babbino caro.”
This is a brand-new production, and a perfect evening for first-time opera-goers and longtime fans alike.
Don’t miss the magic of live opera.
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📍 Teatro Ángela Peralta, Centro, San Miguel de Allende
🎭 Operísima México presenta Gianni Schicchi
La divertidísima ópera cómica de Puccini llega al Teatro Ángela Peralta
9, 10 y 11 de noviembre de 2026 • San Miguel de Allende
Intriga, enredos familiares y mucho humor, donde nada es lo que parece.
Cuando muere un hombre rico, sus parientes se pelean por la herencia, hasta que un astuto embaucador les da la vuelta al juego. Un acto lleno de la mejor música de Puccini, que incluye la querida aria “O mio babbino caro”.
Es una producción totalmente nueva, ideal tanto para quienes van a su primera ópera como para los aficionados de siempre.
No te pierdas la magia de la ópera en vivo.
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📞 +52 415 180 7247
📍 Teatro Ángela Peralta, Centro, San Miguel de Allende
Gianni Schicchi (Italian pronunciation: [ˈdʒanni ˈskikki]) is a comic opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano, composed in 1917–18. The libretto is based on an incident mentioned in Dante‘s Divine Comedy. The work is the third and final part of Puccini’s Il trittico (The Triptych) – three one-act operas with contrasting themes, originally written to be presented together. Although it continues to be performed with one or both of the other trittico operas, Gianni Schicchi is now more frequently staged either alone or with short operas by other composers. The aria “O mio babbino caro“ is one of Puccini’s best known, and one of the most popular arias in opera.
Puccini had long considered writing a set of one-act operas which would be performed together in a single evening, but faced with a lack of suitable subjects and opposition from his publisher, he repeatedly put the project aside. However, by 1916 Puccini had completed the one-act tragedy Il tabarro and, after considering various ideas, he began work the following year on the solemn, religious, all-female opera Suor Angelica. Gianni Schicchi, a comedy, completes the triptych with a further contrast of mood. The score combines elements of Puccini’s modern style of harmonic dissonance with lyrical passages reminiscent of Rossini, and it has been praised for its inventiveness and imagination.
When Il trittico premiered at New York’s Metropolitan Opera in December 1918, Gianni Schicchi became an immediate hit, while the other two operas were received with less enthusiasm. This pattern was broadly repeated at the Rome and London premieres and led to commercial pressures to abandon the less successful elements. Although on artistic grounds Puccini opposed performing the three operas except as the original triptych, by 1920 he had given his reluctant consent to separate performances. Gianni Schicchi has subsequently become the most-performed part of Il trittico and has been widely recorded.
