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Gianni Schicchi is Woody Allen’s show, but not entirely. The opening bit is Woody-sophomoric: a screen with funny Italian words — e.g., “impetigo” — just to be Woody-cute. But that is soon lifted, and Gianni Schicchi has resisted worse than that. It’s a wonderful, boisterous show, staged on a crowded design by Santo Loquasto — a backyard and tenement of any century, any neighborhood — that is really part of the fun. The opera is a great boondoggle, a Woody Allen specialty if ever there was. Thomas Allen is the seedy, self-important Schicchi; Laura Tatulescu sings the “O mio babbino caro” most seductively; and the show is stolen (literally) by 9-year-old Sage Ryan, who in the brief span of this opera picks every pocket and steals every heart.
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