Il trittico; BBC Symphony Orchestra/ Wigglesworth – review

Royal Opera House; Barbican, London
Ermonela Jaho is unforgettable in Royal Opera’s revival of Puccini’s Il trittico. Plus Britten with added visuals…A dimly lit quayside drab with poverty and toil. A women’s cloister spotless but for the stain of indelible sin. The bedroom of a dying man made all the more airless by the gabbing and pecking of his greedy family. Three worlds, three sets of desires and three operas. Puccini described his Il trittico, with some bathos, as