Royal Opera House 2017-18 Preview: Elīna Garanča Among 4 Reasons to See ‘Cavalleria Rusticana’ & ‘Pagliacci’

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This Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden opens its production of the famed Italian double bill often known as “CavPag.” “Cavalleria Rusticana” and “Pagliacci” will get 11 performances this season with the final one slated for Jan. 13, 2018, almost a month-and-a-half after it opens its run. Here are reasons to see this year’s “CavPag” at {…}

Opera Meets Film, Special Features

Opera Meets Film: How the ‘Cavalleria Rusticana’ Intermezzo Contextualizes & Creates Character in ‘Raging Bull’

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“Opera Meets Film” is a feature dedicated to exploring the way that opera has been employed in cinema. We will select a section or a film in its entirety, highlighting the impact that utilizing the operatic form or sections from an opera can alter our perception of a film that we are viewing. This week’s installment features Martin Scorcese’s “Raging {…}

Opera Meets Film, Special Features

Opera Meets Film: ‘The Godfather: Part III’s’ Operatic Structure As Reflected Through ‘Cavalleria Rusticana’

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“Opera Meets Film” is a feature dedicated to exploring the way that opera has been employed in cinema. We will select a section or a film in its entirety, highlighting the impact that utilizing the operatic form or sections from an opera can alter our perception of a film that we are viewing. This week’s installment features Francis Ford Coppola’s {…}

Opera Wiki

Opera Profile: An Introduction To Mascagni’s ‘Cavalleria Rusticana’

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This article represents the first of our “Opera For Beginners” section. To celebrate the date of an opera’s world premiere, we will start to create separate profiles for operas that the uninitiated can reference for their learning pleasure! Mascagni’s “Cavalleria Rusticana” is one of the staples of the Verismo opera, a style of the late 1800s that showcased the lives {…}

Reviews, Stage Reviews

Teatro Comunale di Bologna 2017 Review – La Voix Humaine & Cavalleria Rusticana: Anna Caterina Antonacci Sets Tone For Fantastic Double Bill

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Where one would expect the operatic double bill of “Cavalleria Rusticana” and “Pagliacci,” Teatro Comunale di Bologna instead opened last night’s double bill with Poulenc’s “La Voix Humaine” and Mascagni’s ever-famous verismo opera, “Cavalleria Rusticana,” appropriately placed with the approaching Easter season. La Voix Humaine “Voix Humaine,” set to music from Cocteau’s play of the same name, is described as {…}

News

Elina Garanca’s makes role debut in Mascagni’s ‘Cavalleria Rusticana’ at the Paris National Opera

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On Tuesday Dec. 6 the Paris National Opera will broadcast Mascagni’s “Cavalleria Rusticana” and Hindemith’s “Sancta Susanna.” The broadcast will mark the role debut of Elina Garanca in the role of Santuzza in “Cavalleria Rusticana.” Garanca recently noted that Santuzza was a dream role and was the basis of her newest album “Revive.” It also marks Garanca’s entry into dramatic Mezzo {…}

DVD and CD Reviews, Reviews

CD Review: Decca’s ‘Marina’

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Decried, derided, dismissed—such was the fate of verismo opera, viewed through the lens of musicological conservatism, that is. Accused of sordid gutter realism, it tended to be overlooked as the declining, or terminal, chapter in the evolution of Italian melodrama: “Last Acts” (2000) and “The Autumn of Italian Opera” (2007) are but two book titles illustrating this bias—in spite of {…}

News, Streaming

Carnegie Hall+ to Present Free Outdoor Opera Screenings

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Carnegie Hall+ has announced that it will present two free outdoor film screenings this August in the open air at the Public Square & Gardens at Hudson Yards in New York City. The first screening will be at Hudson Yards featuring “Cavalleria rusticana” and “Pagliacci” from the salzburg Easter Festival. The recording features Jonas Kaufmann joined by the Staatskapelle Dresden, {…}

IndieOpera

Sotto Voce & Avanti Festival Orchestra to Present ‘Fidelio’

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Sotto Voce will join the Avanti Festival Orchestra to present “Fidelio” this August. The production, set to take the stage on Aug. 14 and 16, 2026 at Asbury Hall in Buffalo, will serve as the capstone of the third annual Buffalo Beethoven Festival and marks Sotto Voce’s third collaboration with conductor Mason Cancilla. Soprano Amanda Santos will make her company {…}

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