Carmina Priapea's revisioning debut of Puccini’s beloved masterpiece, Il trittico, brings hot issues in the gay community through traditional three one-act opera pieces.

Tabarro is revisioned as a comment on the gay community’s obsession with youth. In Suor Angelica, the cruelty & dangers of conversion therapy is depicted through a harrowing unfolding of events. While Gianni Schicchi’s adaption takes a light-hearted look at a family’s acceptance of a same-sex couple’s marriage.


In Tabarro, Michele & his lover George make ends meet on a boat ferrying goods between cities. Since the death of their bambino, things have not been the same between the two of them. George has become withdrawn from the much older Michele, & secretly yearns to return to city life. One of the younger dock loaders have caught George’s eye & the two have started an affair, despite the threat of Michele’s violent temper…

Suor Angelica finds a group of traumatised young people trying to hold on to their sanity in a gay conversion therapy centre. Some of them have been there for weeks, others for months... some of them longer. Amongst them is a loner, whom everyone calls "Sister Angelica". Very little is known about him except that he is the go-to-guy for "herbs", comes from a wealthy family & in all the time that he has been at the clinic he has not received a single visitor. Then one day he receives a visitor... with news that will change everything for him.

Gianni Schicchi, an infamous conman, has a charming son, Larry, who has fallen in love with one of the sons of the wealthy Donati family. In addition to the Donati’s disapproving of this scandalous relationship, the family are also dealing with rumours of disinheritance, as their patriarch Buoso lays dying. Whoever could help them out of this desperate situation?

Join us for Carmina Priapea’s debut at King's Head Theatre!