I especially love sharing concert recordings in this blog, particularly when it's a stage work such as an opera. The live performance allows us to "attend" something that could be anywhere on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The director of Royal Opera’s controversial Guillaume Tell wins cheers, mostly, for a revealing new Cav and Pag Hot blood is the catalyst, tears the result in the popular double bill almost ...

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 ...

Opera's most famous double bill remains yoked together for no particular reason except habit, and the fact that these two revenge tragedies were first performed within a couple of years of each other.

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The Royal Opera's celebrated production of Cavelleria rusticana / Pagliacci returns to the Royal Opera House this November. First staged in 2015, Damiano Michieletto's production was awarded the ...

The thing we tend to forget, in these days of iTunes and The X Factor is that the seemingly rarefied thing that is opera today was itself once a great money-making scheme. A successful opera, with ...

Music and fashion: 'So it Goes Lyric - 3rd Edition: Cavalleria Rusticana'. A combination that works with the show scheduled for today at 7 PM in Naples, in the monumental palace of Mondragone, among ...

SOUTH BEND — South Bend Lyric Opera presents Pietro Mascagni’s “Cavalleria Rusticana” at 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday at 240 E. Tutt St. As staged by SBLO, the 1890 opera takes place on Easter in 1946 ...