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Now Streaming on Demand

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Now Streaming On Demand

Giacomo Puccini

"...backstabbingly socially distant..."

What do you do when the family patriarch dies in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic? Hire a con man and change his will.

Giacomo Puccini's comedic one-act masterpiece, premiered in the midst of the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, is brought to you as an original film produced by Opera Ithaca. Join and us and see just what happens when opera's favorite dysfunctional family goes into quarantine. Best of all - you can enjoy from the complete safety of home!

Tickets

Regular: $15

Student: $10

Gianni Schicchi

2020 | 2021 Season

Gianni Schicchi

Composer: Giacomo Puccini

Director: Ben Robinson

Co-Director: David Kossack

Conductor: Christopher Zemliauskas

Starring: Dennis Jesse, Emily Pulley, Elena Galván, Daniel Bates, Nicholas Davis, Steve Stull

Original Filmed Production

Now Streaming On Demand

55 Minutes

Sung in Italian with English Subtitles

"...backstabbingly socially distant..."

What do you do when the family patriarch dies in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic? Hire a con man and change his will.

Giacomo Puccini's comedic one-act masterpiece, premiered in the midst of the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, is brought to you as an original film produced by Opera Ithaca. Join and us and see just what happens when opera's favorite dysfunctional family goes into quarantine. Best of all - you can enjoy from the complete safety of home!

Inside the creative Process

Composer: Sally Lamb McCune

Librettists: Rachel Lampert & Yvonne Gray

Spring 2021

The final step in the workshop process of this thrilling new

opera by Ithaca composer Sally Lamb McCune takes us to the

Orkney Islands in Scotland, where conflict between humanity

and nature plays out by the picturesque sea.

We Wear the Sea Like a Coat

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