The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews Sebastian, Four Mothers, Restless, and The Most Precious of Cargoes
The docker, the nun and the trickster
DAVID NICHOLSON enjoys a rare outing for Puccini’s trilogy of one-act operas, staged amid protests over cuts to funding

Il Trittico
Welsh National Opera, Cardiff Bay
GIACOMO PUCCINI’S three single-act operas making up Il Trittico (“the tryptych”) have been brought together to theatres in Wales and England as a triple-bill, just as the Italian maestro planned.
Although these operas are seldom played together, WNO and Scottish Opera are to be congratulated for a fabulous co-production of Il Trittico. However, as the audience arrived they were greeted by trade union members protesting against the latest cuts from the Arts Councils of England and Wales which has led Welsh National Opera to announce cuts in pay and jobs in the orchestra and chorus.
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