Pietro Mascagni’s “Cavalleria rusticana” might have been a one-hit wonder for its composer but it was Satchmo’s favorite opera. In the mid-1920s, Louis Armstrong would pop out of the pit at the ...

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 ...

Two powerful women will be at the helm when Opera San José returns in the new year with the operatic double bill of Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, bringing raw passion ...

Two powerful women will be at the helm when Opera San José returns in the new year with the masterful operatic double bill of Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, bringing raw ...

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 ...

Sir David McVicar directs the first new Met production of the popular verismo double bill in 45 years: Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, both with Marcelo Álvarez as the male lead. Eva-Maria ...

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 ...

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 ...

Plays within plays have always had their fascination partly because audience members can imagine themselves being watched – momentarily glimpsing their own situation inside the artwork. Dragana ...

It was one of the tragedies of Mascagni’s career that although he wrote and produced 15 other operas, none came close to matching the spectacular success of Cavalleria Rusticana (Rustic Chivalry).

Covent Garden’s Christmas offering is everyone’s favourite double bill, even though these twin peaks of verismo – earthy Italian realism – were not designed to be yoked together. But Damiano ...

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