Damiano Michieletto’s 2015 pairing of the two short operas returns for its third revival with a superb cast including Roberto Alagna, and carefully if sometimes solidly paced by Daniel Oren Italian ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pietro Mascagni’s “Cavalleria rusticana” might have been a one-hit wonder for its composer but it was Satchmo’s favorite opera. In ...

Even the most seasoned orchestra-goer can sometimes be wary of the opera, a multi-sensory experience that requires picking your battles between the singing, the dancing, the subtitles and the synopsis ...

In this OCS twofer, Houston Public Media's St.John Flynn and Eric Skelly of the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra give quick intros to Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Ruggero Leoncavallo's ...

Roberto Alagna takes on the leading tenor roles in both parts of opera’s most popular double bill. Two tales of passion, jealousy, and death set in southern Italy, Cav/Pag have been all but ...

In 2015, director Giselle Ty created a series of immersive theatrical installations at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem. Titled “All at Once Upon a Time (or Variations on the Theme of Disappearing),” ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. Leoncavallo's Pagliacci is a terrible penny dreadful on a theatre troupe doing a play about a faithless wife – but real life mirrors the ...

Cavalleria Rusticana, performed in a single act, is considered one of the main compositions of Italian operatic realism, known as verismo. The opera mixes revenge, betrayal and lies in a true love ...

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In Damiano Michieletto’s new production of this famous double bill, the stories are presented straightforwardly and the tragedies perfectly defined. Among the singers, soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek is a ...