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Music: Giacomo Puccini. Lyrics: Giovacchino Forzano.
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First performance: New-York, Metropolitan Opera at 14 of december 1918.
| Role | Voicetype |
|---|---|
| Sister Angelica | soprano |
| Princess | alto |
| Abbedissan | mezzosoprano |
| Sister Zelatrice | mezzosoprano |
| Novisernas teacher | mezzosoprano |
| Sister Genoveva | soprano | Sister Osmina | soprano | Sister Dolcina | soprano | Sister Infermiera | mezzosoprano |
A convent, late-seventeenth-century Italy. The curtain rises on a group of nuns busy with their chores. Everyone is cheerful - except Angelica, who has been seven years in the convent and has heard nothing from her family in all that time. Suddenly, however, the abbess informs her that her aunt, a princess, has come to see her. Angelica rushes to greet her, but is coldly received by the princess. It emerges that Angelica was sent to the convent by her family as punishment for having an illegitimate child; the princess has come not to forgive, but to inform that her child is died. The princess leaves, and as Angelica sings of her longing to join her child in Heaven, her sister nuns raise their voices in praise of the Virgin Mary. Left alone, Angelica drinks poison, but then it dawns on her that her suicide will result in damnation - and thus separation from the child she newer knew. She prays despairingly to the Madonna, and this time her voice is joined by those of angels. As the songs rises to a height of ecstasy, the Madonna herself appears - with Angelicasīs child - to lead her into Heaven.
