At The Opera, Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, March 12, 2022
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Cavalleria rusticana, Italian for "rustic chivalry" is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from an 1880 short story of the same name and subsequent play by Giovanni Verga. Considered one of the classic verismo operas, it premiered on May 17, 1890 at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome. Since 1893, it has often been performed in a so-called Cav/Pag double-bill with Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo.
Cast:
Santuzza - Lina Bruna Rasa
Turridu - Antonio Melandri
Alfio - Alfio Poli
Pietro Mascagni - conductor
Opera Italiana d'Olanda
Dutch Royal Theater, The Hage, Holland
LIVE - 1938
Pagliacci is an Italian opera in a prologue and two acts, with music and libretto by Ruggero Leoncavallo. It is the composer's only opera that is still widely performed. Opera companies have frequently staged Pagliacci with Cavalleria rusticana by Pietro Mascagni, a double bill known colloquially as "Cav and Pag".
Pagliacci premiered at the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan on May 21, 1892, conducted by Arturo Toscanini, with Adelina Stehle as Nedda, Fiorello Giraud as Canio, Victor Maurel as Tonio, and Mario Ancona as Silvio. Nellie Melba played Nedda in London in 1893, soon after the Italian premiere, and it was given in New York on June 15, 1893, with Agostino Montegriffo as Canio.
Cast:
Nedda - Maria Callas
Canio - Giuseppe di Stefano
Tonio - Tito Gobbi
La Scala Opera
Tullio Serafin - conductor
EMI - 1960
8:00 p.m.
Pietro Mascagni
Cavalleria rusticana, opera Intemezzo
Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony; Ondrej Lenard, conductor
8:20 p.m.
Lina Bruna Rasa
Pietro Mascagni
Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act
Opera Italiana d'Olanda; Pietro Mascagni, conductor
9:50 p.m.
Callas / Di Stefano / Gobbi
Leoncavallo
Pagliacci
11:17 p.m.
Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Ponchielli
La Gioconda Teaser Dance of the Hours
Anita Cerquetti
11:42 p.m.
Verdi
Il Trovatore: Se m'ami ancor ... Ai nostri monti
Tucker
11:46 p.m.
Edith Mathis Alan Titius
Mozart
Act I: La ci darem la mano -
11:49 p.m.
Price/Horne
Puccini
Madama Butterfly: Scuoti quella fronda (Flower Duet)
11:54 p.m.
Pietro Mascagni
Cavalleria rusticana, opera Intemezzo
Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony; Ondrej Lenard, conductor
