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Cavalleria rusticana| Opera by Pietro Mascagni (libretto by G Menasci and G Targioni-Tozzetti, based on Giovanni Verga's play), first produced at the Teatro Costanzi, Rome, Italy, on 17 May 1890. In the story, Turiddu loves Lola, now married to Alfio. His former love Santuzza tells Alfio of the infidelity; Alfio challenges Turiddu to a duel and kills him. |
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Bechi, Gino
Brindisi
Guglielmo Ratcliff
Keene, Christopher
Mascagni, Pietro
Navarro, Garcia
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Pons, Juan
Puccini, Giacomo
Queler, Eve
Spinelli, Nicola
Verga, Giovanni
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| 7) In composing the score, Simon Boswell drew from a number of nineteenth-century operas whose cast of characters and themes specifically complement Hoffman's own emphasis on the artisans and the theme of love's transformative power: Gioacchino Rossini's La Cenerentolla (1817), Vincenzo Bellini's Norma (1831), Gaetano Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore (1832), Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata (1853), and Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana (1890). And in opera, while Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, not to mention the Puccini trilogy, are perennial favorites, the one-act opera remains a rarity" in the repertory. The trio have continent-hopped across Europe and North America as Charbonnet sang leads or prominent roles in Fidelio, Aida, Cavalleria Rusticana, The Flying Dutchman, and Die Walkure. |