of a bill with such diverse works as Engelbert Humperdinck's , Italo Montemezzi's , and even be incestuously mated with Puccini's own . In 1952, Novak's sets were revised by Wilhelm von Wymetal in a production which remained in service until 1958. Among the leading singers associated with the opera, Tito Gobbi was particularly prominent in the 1950s and 1960s. He first sang the role of Schicchi in the Rome production in 1951; in subsequent years he appeared in further Rome seasons, in Bologna, and at La Scala, Milan, where Renata Scotto sang Lauretta in Carlo Maestrini's production. Gobbi directed and sang in the 1969 production at the Teatro Comunale di Firenze, and later that year performed in and directed the same version at the August 1969 Edinburgh Festival. In 1974, the Met gave its first new production since 1926. The production, by Fabrizio Melano, was paired with the Met debut of Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle. The following year, the Met revived in the original form, combining the Melano production with new productions for the other two operas by the same director. The 1975 performance of featured Renata Scotto as Lauretta. Scotto also played the two other heroines, a feat she repeated later that season, on tour, and when the three operas were again presented by the Met in 1981. When the production was revived again by the Met in 1989, Teresa Stratas sang the " hat-trick". Lili Chookasian sang the mezzo-soprano leads in all three operas (Zita in ) and Cornell MacNeil played Schicchi. Glyndebourne Festival Opera put on a 2004 double bill of and Rachmaninoff's The Miserly Knight, in which the sets for the two operas (designed by Vicki Mortimer) are back-to-back on a turntable. In 2007, Los Angeles Opera announced that it would be staging in the 2008/2009 season, with Woody Allen making his operatic directing debut in . The production starred baritone Sir Thomas Allen, soprano , and tenor Saimir Pirgu. A 2015 performance, then directed by Matthew Diamond and starring Plácido Domingo in the title role, was filmed for television in association with various international broadcasters, such as Westdeutscher Rundfunk, ARTE, and NHK. The 2007 Royal Opera House production by Richard Jones updated the action to a shabby 1940s Italy of "unemptied chamber pots, garish floral wallpaper and damp ceilings", with Bryn Terfel in the title role "a masterpiece of monstrous vulgarity". In the 2009 revival