Salzburg Festival 2022: Gianni Schicchi

In Gianni Schicchi, with its playful levity, peals of unbounded, strident laughter ring out - albeit of the kind that can only be heard in hell. We are in Florence, in the house of Buoso Donati, who has just died. Once the will has been found, his assembled kinsfolk - degenerate aristocrats - discover they have been deprived of their inheritance. After initial reluctance they bring themselves to seek assistance from an unpopular newcomer, the cunning Gianni Schicchi. He sets to work, ruthlessly turning the situation to his own advantage - not for nothing does he rage through Dante’s Inferno as a kind of sinister poltergeist. “Great opera cinema!”
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