Cavalleria Rusticana (Rustic Chivalry) by Pietro Mascagni (1863–1945), a one-act opera set in a Sicilian village, is considered to be the key work of Italian Verismo, introducing contemporary ...

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 ...

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 ...

Opera Santa Barbara (OSB) opens its 32nd season with a new production of Pietro Mascagni’s classic Italian drama “Cavalleria Rusticana,” Nov. 7 and Nov. 9 at the Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara. A ...

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 ...

Colour everywhere: Robert Hayward as Aleko with Matthew Stiff as Zemfira’s father, Elin Pritchard as Zemfira and the Chorus of Opera North in Rachmaninov’s Aleko In Karolina Sofulak’s take on the ...

NEWBURYPORT — The Metropolitan Opera’s 2022-23 season of Saturday matinee radio broadcasts continues with a treasure from the Met archives: the double bill of Mascagni’s “Cavalleria Rusticana” and ...

As the leading tenor in Pietro Mascagni’s “Cavalleria Rusticana” and Ruggero Leoncavallo’s “I Pagliacci” with the Westfield Symphony Orchestra on Saturday, Todd Geer has some meaty singing ahead of ...

Most people looking for a DVD of Cavalleria Rusticana would probably reject this disc on the grounds that the cast, on paper, does not look particularly starry. But they'd be missing out. The ...

Those who fear for the state of the major classical recording companies at present may well find their worst nightmares confirmed by this pair of discs, which feature crossover tenor Andrea Bocelli ...