By Stephen West [Bloomberg.com, 20 April 2007]
April 20 (Bloomberg) — Jack O’Brien, the director of “Hairspray,” makes his Metropolitan Opera debut tonight staging Puccini’s “Il Trittico,” a trio of short operas with good tunes. “Il Tabarro” culminates in a murder on a Parisian tugboat; “Suor Angelica” features a suicidal nun; in “Gianni Schicchi,” a comedy based on Dante, the wily title character impersonates a dead person and inherits a fortune.