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Music: Giacomo Puccini Lyrics: Giuseppe Adami.
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First performance: New-York, Metropolitan at 14 of december 1918.
| Role | Voicetype |
|---|---|
| Michele, flodpråmens owner | baritone |
| Luigi, stevedore | tenor |
| Il Tinca,stevedore | tenor |
| Il Talpa,stevedore | bass |
| Giorgetta | soprano |
| Il Talpas, wife | mezzosoprano | En skillingstryckskolportör | tenor | Six seamstress | sopranos |
On a barge moored beside the Seine, Michele sits and watches the stevedores finish work for the day, while his wife Giorgetta does her chores. As the stevedores walk past the barge on their way home, Giorgetta steals a few moments with one of them, Luigi, who is her lover. Michele looks on suspiciously, but does nothing, enabling the lovers to arrange a meeting later that night. Once Giorgetta is back on board, Michele tries to embrace her, but she pushes him away and goes inside the barge. He is convinced of her infidelity and as he sits alone on deck he lights his pipe - flare from which is mistaken by Luigi for Giorgettas signal. He climbs onboard onlu to encounter Michele, who forces the stevedore to confess the affair. He then strangles him to death and hides his body beneath his overcoat. When Giorgetta appears on deck and walks towards her husband, he slowly opens his coat to reveal her lover´s corpse.
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