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	Suor Angelica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Suor Angelica (Sister Angelica) is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an original Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano.
		The Princess explains that Angelica's sister is to be married and that Angelica must sign a document renouncing her claim to her inheritance.
		Angelica replies that she has repented for her sin, but there is one thing she cannot give the Virgin - she cannot forget the memory of her (illegitimate) son who was taken from her seven years ago.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Suor_Angelica (505 words)

	McIntire Department of Music
		Suor Angelica will be directed by student-director Annie Holt, produced by Louisa Panou-Takahashi with guest soprano in the role of Suor Angelica, Melissa Sumner.
		She is a somewhat mysterious figure and all is known of her is that she has been in the convent for seven years and that her family relegated her to that fate to punish her for some crime she committed.
		Angelica's sister is about to be married and a signature on a document is necessary so that their dead parent's fortune can be divided.
	www.virginia.edu /music/pressrelease/04-05/opera040305.html (440 words)

	Suor Angelica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Suor Angelica is one of three one-act operas composed as a set and meant to fill a single evening, though they are seldom performed that way.
		Sister Angelica claims to have no desires, but as soon as she says so, the nuns begin gossiping — Sister Angelica has lied, because her true desire is to hear from her wealthy, noble family, whom she has not heard from in seven years.
		Angelica replies that she has repented for her sin, but there is one thing she cannot give the Virgin — she cannot forget the memory of her (illegitimate) son who was taken from her seven years ago.
	www.toronto-opera.com /2006_season/Suor_Angelica/frame_angelica.html (664 words)

	Brown Paper Tickets - Puccini's Suor Angelica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Suor Angelica has lived the life of a pious nun for seven years since her noble family banished her to the convent for the birth of an illegitimate son.
		Unexpectedly the Principessa, Angelica's dowager aunt, travels to the convent to demand that she relinquish her rights to the family fortune because of her fall from grace.
		Overcome with grief, Angelica has visions that her son is call to her.
	www.brownpapertickets.com /event/3135 (235 words)

	DePauw University - School of Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Set in late 17th-Century Italy, the plot slowly reveals that Angelica has been forced to enter a convent by her family, members of nobility, who were disgraced by Angelica's having a baby (son) out of wedlock.
		She is visited by a hateful aunt, who demands that Angelica sign away her worldly possessions, which will be used as dowry for her younger sister.
		Anxious for news of her son, Angelica is then told that the boy had died two years prior.
	www.depauw.edu /music/opera/suorangelica/synopsis.asp (277 words)

	At The Opera 17/07/2005: Suor Angelica & Gianni Schicchi
		As the curtain opens, the nuns are finishing their prayers and joyfully go about their business, while Sister Angelica tries unsuccessfully to hide her unhappiness; in the seven years she has spent in the convent, she has heard no news of her family.
		As Angelica begs for compassion her aunt coldly informs her that the child is now dead.
		The other nuns join her in ecstatic praise of the Holy Virgin; when she is again left alone, she drinks poison, singing a joyful farewell to life, suddenly her calm is shattered: by killing herself she is damned to eternal separation from the child she loves.
	www.abc.net.au /classic/opera/stories/s1387708.htm (512 words)

	Review: Suor Angelica
		FLORIDA—“Suor Angelica” is a one-act opera composed by Puccini in 1918.
		Angelica poisons herself, but immediately regrets her sinful action.
		For the first half of the opera, Sister Angelica blends in with her community but after her aunt the Princess appears, her arias multiply while she inquires after her son, learns of his death, and plans to join him in death.
	www.hotopera.com /R-Suor.html (443 words)

	Amazon.com: Puccini: Suor Angelica / Bonynge, Sutherland: Music: Giacomo Puccini,Richard Bonynge,National Philharmonic ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Though Puccini's trilogy of one-act operas, Il Trittico, is hard to love in its totality, Suor Angelica shows the composer retreating from melodramatic verismo into a more lyrical expression, as befits this story of a nun driven to suicide when told her child is dead.
		Joan does a great job at portraying the frail Suor Angelica, sent to live in a Convent because of her child born in wedlock.
		The character of Angelica was of royal birth, a princess forced into life as a nun because of her illegitimate child - and Joan Sutherland's bearing and large voice gives us the most royal heroine of any recording.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000006P4W?v=glance (1972 words)

	Current News: Opera/Music Theatre Workshop Performing One-Act Operas , Southeast Missouri State University
		The title character, Sister Angelica, has waited for seven long years for news of her family, specifically of her son, who was conceived out of wedlock.
		The grieving Angelica laments the loss of her child, who died without the tender caresses of his mother.
		Later, Angelica decides to take her own life so that she may be in heaven with her son.
	www.semo.edu /news/index_3653.htm (416 words)

	Land of Puccini - Giacomo Puccini's Suor Angelica (Librettist: Giovacchino Forzano) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Synopsis: Angelica lives the convent life of a pious nun, banished there seven years before by her noble family for the disgrace she brought upon them with the birth of her illegitimate son.
		In passing, she mentions that Angelica's son, about whom the nun has thought every day for seven years, had died two years before.
		In her grief, Angelica drinks a poisoned potion, and realizing her sin of self-destruction, calls to the Virgin Mary to deliver her into salvation.
	www.landofpuccini.com /eng/suorangelica.asp (179 words)

	ShowMag.com
		ANGELICA is Puccini at his most contemplative and though it is comparatively inert dramatically, its soaring melodies and beautifully suffering heroine stamp it as pure Puccini.
		But despite her convent surroundings, this Angelica remained an earthly creature—warm, sympathetic, and haunted by the mistake that brought her to her present life.
		If she didn’t prove a vocal match for England in their confrontation scene, she was commendably clear and showed more sensitivity for Angelica’s plight than usual.
	www.showmag.com /opera/opera071.html (585 words)

	University of Kentucky News -- news.uky.edu
		The operas, "Suor Angelica” and "Gianni Schicchi,” are sure to captivate the hearts of the audience.
		Angelica will learn of the death of her child and sink into despair.
		Tickets for the performance of "Suor Angelica" and “Gianni Schicchi” are available by calling the Singletary Center for the Arts ticket office at (859) 257-4929 or purchased online.
	news.uky.edu /news/display_article.php?artid=680 (622 words)

	CLPUSUOR.HTM
		There are 26 recordings of Suor Angelica by Giacomo Puccini on file
		Suor Angelica by Giacomo Puccini performed in Italian
		Suor Angelica by Giacomo Puccini performed in English
	k.1asphost.com /clor/CLPUSUOR.HTM (4241 words)

	Metroactive Art \| West Bay Opera
		Its role, however, is very different in each--villainous as well as redemptive in Suor Angelica, spoofed with the irreverence of a Marx Brothers movie in Gianni Schicchi.
		The almost motionless scenario in Suor Angelica was spryly negated by Schicchi's romping madness.
		Earlier in the evening, as the wicked princess in Suor Angelica, Baggott demonstrated her range in dramatic terms with a similarly invigorating performance.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/10.19.95/opera-9542.html (483 words)

	Puccini’s ‘Suor Angelica’ (December 7th and 9th) and Opera Scenes (December 3rd and 10th), Bruntwood ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The story concerns Sister Angelica who, unknown to her colleagues, was forced to take the veil after the birth of her illegitimate son.
		Her aunt, the austere and unbending Principessa arrives to demand that Angelica sign over inheritance to her sister who is shortly to be married.
		As Angelica she sang a fully toned and vocally coloured portrayal whilst her acting was consummate.
	www.musicweb-international.com /SandH/2004/May-Aug04/rncm.htm (1223 words)

	Georgia State University School of Music - View Article
		Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi are two of the three one-act operas featured in Puccini’s Il Trittico (The Triptych).
		In the sublime Suor Angelica, a woman serving penance in a convent grieves that she has never been allowed to see her illegitimate son.
		Suor Angelica will be performed in Italian, and Gianni Schicchi will be performed in English.
	www.music.gsu.edu /articleview.aspx?id=79 (356 words)

	opera05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		''Suor Angelica'' takes place in a convent, where Sister Angelica has been sent for bearing an illegitimate child.
		After seven years, she is visited by a heartless aunt, who asks her to release her inheritance so her younger sister can marry, then coldly informs her the child has died.
		Angelica takes her own life, but as she is dying, finds forgiveness in a vision of the Virgin Mary.
	www.cincypost.com /living/1998/opera051598.html (358 words)

	Opera Illinois: Suor Angelica/Gianni Schicchi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The two brief one-act operas, paired together, provide the passionate lyricism of Puccini at the peak of his craft, in contrasting stories that will alternately bring tears and laughter.
		Suor Angelica (Sister Angelica) is the bittersweet story of a young woman banished to a convent for her indiscretion.
		When she learns that her illegitimate child has died, overcome with grief, she poisons herself.
	www.operaillinois.com /upcoming/suor-schicchi (166 words)

	sour-pagli
		Opening night had Laurice Simmons singing the role of Suor Angelica (Sister Angelica), a poignantly sad account of a young aristocratic woman who gives birth to a child out of wedlock, and is sent to the nunnery to avoid shame to the family.
		Her time at the convent is spent wondering about her son, and when she finally learns his fate, can't face the truth and takes her life.
		Suor Angelica commits suicide, Nedda is killed by Canio, in the middle of their performance no less - and he also offs Silvio for good measure.
	www.reviewplays.com /sour-pagli.htm (1173 words)

	Opera UCLA Presents Puccini’s 'Suor Angelica' and 'Gianni Sch... 12/23/2005
		Opera UCLA Presents Puccini’s 'Suor Angelica' and 'Gianni Sch...
		Opera UCLA Presents Puccini’s 'Suor Angelica' and 'Gianni Schicchi' Jan. 27 and 29, Feb. 3 and 5
		In "Suor Angelica," the redemptive power of love saves the soul of a young nun who has just learned of the death of her illegitimate child.
	newsroom.ucla.edu /page.asp?RelNum=6725 (894 words)

	Welcome to the OCU School of Music
		"Suor Angelica" is part of Il Trittico, Puccini’s trio of one-act operas created to contrast three moods: dark, violent jealousy in "Il Tabarro"; satirical wit in "Gianni Schicchi," and tearful sentiment in "Suor Angelica."
		The score, composed in 1918, tells the tale of a 17th century nun whose family forced her into a convent after she had a baby out of wedlock.
		In the company of the religious, Sister Angelica blossoms as a saintly, selfless woman.
	www.okcu.edu /Music/archieve/archive_detail.asp?id=168 (157 words)

	USC: USC TIMES: Short Article Title
		The title character, Suor Angelica, has been forced by her noble family to retire to the convent to atone for the guilt of an illicit relationship, which resulted in the birth of a son.
		After joining the convent, however, Suor Angelica continues to suffers the anger of her family.
		The second opera of the evening, "Gianni Schicchi," is a comic opera based on the 30th canto of Dante's "Inferno." Set in Florence in the early 14th-century, "Gianni Schicchi" begins as relatives of Buoso Donati gather around his deathbed in anticipation of a large inheritance.
	www.sc.edu /usctimes/articles/2002/2002-04/opera_0402.html (712 words)

	Ensemble. Verismo al fresco (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Under the impressively musical baton of Nicoletta Conti, the double bill of Puccini's Suor Angelica and Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci scored highly in the performance on 5 July 2002, with riveting singing from the lead roles, some brightly projected choruses and overall stunning staging.
		With its rarified music and poignant subject -- a nun's suicide on being told of the death of her child whom she has never seen since infancy -- Suor Angelica is a challenge for audience and singers alike, perhaps the reason it is less often performed than the rest of Il Triticco.
		The music is highly stylised, and Puccini's evocation of a sacred music -- parallel sliding harmonies, modal inflection, and often spare textures, sectional scoring -- is aptly tailored to the convent setting.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/2002/07/verismo1.htm (333 words)

	Puccini's "Il Trittico" quiz -- free game
		What has been seen by the alms-gathering nuns that leads Angelica to believe that she is being visited by one of her family?
		To tell Angelica that her sister is going to be married
		To tell Angelica that she is taking her out of the convent
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=126699 (620 words)

	UW-Eau Claire Music and Theatre Arts Department : Theatre & Dance : Gianni Schicchi and Suor Angelica
		Set in a convent in Italy at the end of the 17th century, Suor Angelica tells the story of the mysterious Sister Angelica, a young woman of obvious noble birth who has resided in the convent for the past seven years.
		In all that time, she has had no visitors and her background remains a secret, making her a fascination to the other nuns.
		At last her aunt, the Princess, comes to the convent and reveals a dark family secret that dramatically changes Angelica's life and causes her to make a drastic decision.
	www.uwec.edu /mus-the/theatre/Production/opera2005.htm (263 words)

	Amazon.com: Il Trittico in Full Score: "II Tabarro", "Suor Angelica", "Gianni Schicchi": Books: Giacomo Puccini (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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		When done all together, these three one-act operas and the necessary intermissions between them make for a wearyingly long evening.
		Suor Angelica (Sister Angelica) is the weakest link of the three with its sticky-sweet view of convent life, but it still has some lovely moments.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0486293297?v=glance (420 words)

	SmugMug - Gerhard von Rosen (gaiapix)'s photo galleries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Opera Appassionata presented Puccini's "Suor Angelica" at St. Andrew's-Wesley United Church, Vancouver, BC.
		Suor Angelica is a one-act opera by Puccini which tells the story of a young girl who, after bearing an illegitimate child, gets put into a cloister.
		Now, seven years later she finds out from her aunt that her son could not be hel...
	gaiapix.smugmug.com /Concerts (65 words)

	Amazon.ca: Il Trittico, Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Il Trittico, Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi
		A comprehensive guide to Puccini's IL TRITTICO (Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi), featuring insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis of each opera, a complete, newly translated Libretto for each opera, with Italian/English side-by side, and over 50 music highlight examples.
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	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1930841779 (207 words)

	Suor Angelica photographs - page 1
		Heather Hunter as Suor Angelica holding onto swing
		Chorus of nuns singing in courtyard and Suor Angelica holding flowers
		Heather Hunter as Suor Angelica with the backdrop of Holland House
	www.rbkc.gov.uk /ohparchive/photographs/angelica/xsl_gallery.asp (88 words)

	Amazon.ca: Il Trittico in Full Score : Il Tabarro / Suor Angelica / Gianni Schicchi: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Amazon.ca: Il Trittico in Full Score : Il Tabarro / Suor Angelica / Gianni Schicchi: Books
		Il Trittico in Full Score : Il Tabarro / Suor Angelica / Gianni Schicchi
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	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0486436195 (227 words)

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