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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Opera Orlando artistic director Grant Preisser had a nifty idea: There are two shortish operas, both set in a town square in Sicily, both taking place in a single day and both dealing with love and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lyric Opera of Chicago will present a murderous double feature of Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci — known collectively as Cav/Pag — two timeless operas that ignite music’s ...

Earlier than expected the future chief conductor now leads his first DNO-production Lorenzo Viotti will conduct the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra in the DNO production of Pagliacci/Cavalleria ...

DULUTH — Sarah Lawrence was seriously excited. As an artistic director of Lyric Opera of the North, Lawrence was a connector among all the people the Duluth-based organization has convened to perform ...

Easter morning in Sicily conjures orange trees scenting the air, larks singing among flowering myrtles, men in fields of golden grain. At least, it does if you have in mind Pietro Mascagni’s great ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Music Review By Steve Smith The stars were out in force at Carnegie Hall as the Opera Orchestra of New York opened its 40th-anniversary season with a ...