Antonio Pappano introduces the music from Il tabarro (The Royal Opera)

Antonio Pappano introduces the music from Il tabarro, the first opera in Puccini’s Il trittico, with pianist Susanna Stranders, soprano Julie Unwin, and tenor Neal Cooper. Find out more: Giacomo Puccini’s triptych of operas, Il trittico, opens with Il tabarro (The Cloak) – a taut melodrama set in working-class Paris. It is based on the play La Houppelande by the French playwright Didier Gold, which Puccini saw in 1912. The libretto was created by Giuseppe