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  • Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci, © Photo: Simon Chaput/ONP
    Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci, © Photo: Simon Chaput/ONP

Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci

About the Event

The union of these two operas marks the birth of the school that invented post‐Verdian opera. Violeta Urmana, Marcello Giordani, Inva Mula and Vladimir Galouzine love, hate, avenge and kill one another in the bright southern sunshine.

“The author has sought to depict a slice of life, his only maxim being that the artist is a man and must write for men, drawing inspiration from truth.” That is the foreword that Leoncavallo places before the action of his Pagliacci. It could well serve as the credo of the entire Italian verismo movement; this renewal of Italian opera at the end of the 19th century. In 1888 the editor Sonzogno held a competition that crowned Cavalleria Rusticana as the winner and rocketed Mascagni to fame. This masterly work of flamboyant violence – the story of impoverished people in a Sicilian village, was an immediate and world‐wide success, reaching as far as New York and Buenos Aires. Leoncavallo, he too just beginning, followed suit with Mascagni and composed Pagliacci, another story of terrible, bloody jealousy. A new triumph.

Daniel Oren, Conductor
Giancarlo Del Monaco, Stage director
Johannes Leiacker, Sets
Birgit Wentsch, Costumes
Wolfgang Von Zoubek, Lighting
Patrick Marie Aubert, Chorus master

Cavalleria Rusticana
Violeta Urmana, Santuzza
Marcello Giordani,Turiddu
Stefania Toczyska, Lucia
Franck Ferrari, Alfio
Nicole Piccolomin, Lola

Pagliacci
Inva Mula, Nedda
Vladimir Galouzine, Canio
Sergey Murzaev, Tonio
Florian Laconi, Beppe
Tassis Christoyannis, Silvio


Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus
Maîtrise des Hauts‐de‐Seine / Paris Opera Children's Chorus

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  • Josep Maria Q., Spain

    Jun 2012

    Excelente.

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