Opera San José will open the new year with the iconic operatic double bill of Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, bringing raw passion and intense drama to the California ...

Over the last couple of years Vancouver Opera has made some very good decisions — and had an extra bit of luck to boot. Just before the Omicron wave hit, in-person productions resumed with a ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Plays within plays have always had their fascination partly because audience members can imagine themselves being watched – momentarily ...

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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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Leoncavallo's Pagliacci is a terrible penny dreadful on a theatre troupe doing a play about a faithless wife – but real life mirrors the ...

Pietro Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci. Name a more dramatic duo… I’ll wait. Opera’s favourite double act returns to the Royal Opera House in the form of Damiano ...

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 ...

It was one of the tragedies of Mascagni’s career that although he wrote and produced 15 other operas, none came close to matching the spectacular success of Cavalleria Rusticana (Rustic Chivalry).