Minor characters in this opera include the dyer Guccio and the cobbler Pinellino, who weeps upon being greeted.
Minor characters in this opera include the dyer Guccio and the cobbler Pinellino, who weeps upon being greeted. A key deception involves the best mule in Tuscany, which costs 300 florins. It opens with the son of Gherardo and Nella expressing his desire to play marbles and a rumor attracts the attention of the old woman Zita, who searches for some silver scissors. At the end, the title character declares "if you have been amused, grant me extenuating circumstances!" after he has sung the aria "Ah, che zucconi" in protest of what he has been asked to do. Based on a passage of the Divine Comedy concerned with the inheritance of Buoso Donati, the desire to buy a ring to declare love for Rinuccio is sung about by Lauretta in the famous aria "O mio babbino caro." FTP, name this one-act opera by Giacomo Puccini.
Minor characters in this opera include the dyer Guccio and the cobbler Pinellino, who weeps upon being greeted.
{Gianni Schicchi} (SKee-kee)