Il tabarro is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Adami, based on Didier Gold's play La houppelande. It is the first of the trio of operas known as Il trittico. The first performance was given on December 14, 1918, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.
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The original 1918 costume sketch design for Michele
Disegno per copertina di libretto, drawing for Il Tabarro (undated).
Giacomo Puccini was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas. Regarded as the greatest and most successful proponent of Italian opera after Verdi, he was descended from a long line of composers, stemming from the late-Baroque era. Though his early work was firmly rooted in traditional late-19th-century Romantic Italian opera, he later developed his work in the realistic verismo style, of which he became one of the leading exponents.
Giacomo Puccini: photograph of uncertain date.
Puccini's birthplace during restoration work
Original poster for Puccini's Tosca
Puccini photographed in 1908