Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci
CAST
CANIO
Zoran Todorovich
NEDDA
Anna Princeva / Luiza Fatyol
TONIO
Boris Statsenko / Anooshah Golesorkhi
BEPPO
Cornel Frey / Johannes Preißinger
SILVIO
Richard Šveda / Dmitri Vargin
CHOR
Chor der Deutschen Oper am Rhein
KINDERCHOR
Düsseldorfer Mädchen- und Jungenchor
ORCHESTER
Düsseldorfer Symphoniker
SANTUZZA
Cellia Costea / Morenike Fadayomi
TURIDDU
Sergej Khomov / Najmiddin Mavlyanov
LUCIA
Carole Wilson / Susan Maclean
ALFIO
Anooshah Golesorkhi
LOLA
Maria Boiko
CHOR
Extrachor, Chor der Deutschen Oper am Rhein
ORCHESTER
Düsseldorfer Symphoniker
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA Pietro Mascagni
Murder out of jealousy – with the suspense of a shocker novel and with the luxuriant beauties of Italian belcanto singing at its best, there can hardly be any other opera which demonstrates this theme on stage like the two one-act operas “Cavalleria rusticana” by Pietro Mascagni (1863–1945) and “Pagliacci” by Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857–1919).
In Mascagni’s “Rustic Chivalry”, first performed in Roma in 1890, the drama unfolds itself in a Sicilian village. Santuzza sincerely loves Turiddu, but he is betraying her with his former flame Lola. Beside herself after a confrontation, Santuzza tells Alfio, Lola’s husband, what is going on. Alfio challenges Turiddu to a knife duel, Sicilian style, and kills him.
PAGLIACCI Ruggero Leoncavallo
As in Mascagni’s opera, jealousy is also the driving force behind Leoncavallo’s one act opera which was premiered in Milan two years later: Nedda, wife of the actor Canio, has an affair with the young Silvio, to whom she swears she will give up her wandering lifestyle. Meanwhile Tonio, who harbours an unrequited love for Nedda, puts pressure on her and swears revenge when she rejects him. He tells Canio of his wife’s affair. Yet before Canio can discuss this with his wife, the performance begins: and everything is repeated on stage which has happened in reality. Canio starts to get reality and theatre mixed up – and kills both his wife and her lover.
In 1893, one year after the premiere of “Pagliacci”, the Milan publisher Sonzogno produced both one act works together as a single evening at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome. The two operas have rarely been performed separately ever since and to this day they are regarded as the epitome of Italian verismo.
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CANIO
Zoran Todorovich
NEDDA
Anna Princeva / Luiza Fatyol
TONIO
Boris Statsenko / Anooshah Golesorkhi
BEPPO
Cornel Frey / Johannes Preißinger
SILVIO
Richard Šveda / Dmitri Vargin
CHOR
Chor der Deutschen Oper am Rhein
KINDERCHOR
Düsseldorfer Mädchen- und Jungenchor
ORCHESTER
Düsseldorfer Symphoniker
SANTUZZA
Cellia Costea / Morenike Fadayomi
TURIDDU
Sergej Khomov / Najmiddin Mavlyanov
LUCIA
Carole Wilson / Susan Maclean
ALFIO
Anooshah Golesorkhi
LOLA
Maria Boiko
CHOR
Extrachor, Chor der Deutschen Oper am Rhein
ORCHESTER
Düsseldorfer Symphoniker
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA Pietro Mascagni
Murder out of jealousy – with the suspense of a shocker novel and with the luxuriant beauties of Italian belcanto singing at its best, there can hardly be any other opera which demonstrates this theme on stage like the two one-act operas “Cavalleria rusticana” by Pietro Mascagni (1863–1945) and “Pagliacci” by Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857–1919).
In Mascagni’s “Rustic Chivalry”, first performed in Roma in 1890, the drama unfolds itself in a Sicilian village. Santuzza sincerely loves Turiddu, but he is betraying her with his former flame Lola. Beside herself after a confrontation, Santuzza tells Alfio, Lola’s husband, what is going on. Alfio challenges Turiddu to a knife duel, Sicilian style, and kills him.
PAGLIACCI Ruggero Leoncavallo
As in Mascagni’s opera, jealousy is also the driving force behind Leoncavallo’s one act opera which was premiered in Milan two years later: Nedda, wife of the actor Canio, has an affair with the young Silvio, to whom she swears she will give up her wandering lifestyle. Meanwhile Tonio, who harbours an unrequited love for Nedda, puts pressure on her and swears revenge when she rejects him. He tells Canio of his wife’s affair. Yet before Canio can discuss this with his wife, the performance begins: and everything is repeated on stage which has happened in reality. Canio starts to get reality and theatre mixed up – and kills both his wife and her lover.
In 1893, one year after the premiere of “Pagliacci”, the Milan publisher Sonzogno produced both one act works together as a single evening at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome. The two operas have rarely been performed separately ever since and to this day they are regarded as the epitome of Italian verismo.
Subject may change.
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