LE DIABLE BOITEUX  (THE LAME DEVIL) Music by Jean Françaix (1912-1997) Libretto by the composer   This chamber opera is based on Alain-René Lesage’s novel of the same name. The book was published in 1707 and became an immediate success with its saucy depiction of society and its frivolity and eroticism. The limping devil stands at the heart of the plot who offers the easy-going hero Zambullo a whole series of covert views into the private apartments of Parisian society. In the opera, a narrator leads us through the nocturnal alleys of Madrid. The opera concludes with a boisterous witches’ Sabbath during which the devil disappears. The next morning, the sun rises peacefully. Was it all just a dream?  (Schott & Co. Ltd. publishers)     and  (another double bill)   SUOR ANGELICA Music by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) Libretto by Giovacchino Forzan0 (1884-1970)   Suor Angelica (Sister Angelica) is an opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an original Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano. It is the second opera of the trio of operas known as Il trittico (The Triptych). It received its world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera on December 14, 1918.  The story is the sad tale of a young woman abandoned by her family for being with child who learns later that her child had died years ago.  This is some of the most sumptuous music in all of the repertoire.