It’s quite rare nowadays to stage all three Il Trittico operas in one evening and it will probably get rarer as financial pressures force shorter shows.  Nonetheless it was done in Salzburg in 2022 in productions by Christof Loy.  The USP was having Asmik Grigorian sing all three principal soprano roles so, not unreasonably, the usual order was switched up with Gianni Schicchi coming first and Suor Angelica closing things out.  Unsurprisingly, and as intended, the evening increasingly became the Grigorian show as each opera succeeded the previous one.

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