By Giacomo Puccini. Directed by Jonathan Khuner. Produced by Berkeley Opera at Julia Morgan Theater, February 2005. Artist M. Louise Stanley created the artwork for "Gianni Schicchi."

Puccini brought the Seine into play as a character in this opera, and the "river music" runs through the whole first half. The production complemented this effect beautifully with Jeremy Knight's projections and Robert Anderson's lighting design, which created a slow sunset and moonrise over the river, with Notre Dame Cathedral in the background and even a few automobile headlights moving across a bridge.
     —Michael Zwiebach, Berkeley Daily Planet