Two one-act Puccini opera films at Jarvis

Jarvis Conservatory presents two one-act Puccini opera films, Suor Angelica and Il Tabarro, from the 2022 Salzburg Festival. Saturday, March 29, at 1:30 p.m.  In Suor Angelica the perspective has narrowed to the tragic fate of a single figure, the young nun Angelica. Banished to the convent for an indiscretion, she leads a joyless existence and waits for news of her son, whom she has been forbidden to see since his birth. When she learns that he has died, she resolves to put an end to her life.  In Il Tabarro (‘The Cloak’), surrounded by the decaying miasma of the river Seine, we have arrived in purgatory on earth. Puccini sets the piece in the present day, in Paris, in a realistic, Simenon-like milieu of stevedores, drinkers and whores. In an oppressive atmosphere of hopelessness, a love triangle arises between Giorgetta, her husband who owns the barge Michele, and his stevedore, Luigi. Giorgetta is a woman with a history. A mother who has lost a child and whose marriage is on the verge of breakdown, she starts an affair with Luigi.  Tickets are $20 For more information, visit www.jarvisconservatory.com  Jarvis Conservatory, 1711 Main St., Napa