Opera’s most enduring tragic double bill returns in an evocative new production from Sir David McVicar, who sets the action across two time periods but in the same Sicilian village. Marcelo Álvarez ...

Cavalleria Rusticana (Rustic Chivalry) by Pietro Mascagni (1863–1945), a one-act opera set in a Sicilian village, is considered to be the key work of Italian Verismo, introducing contemporary ...

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 ...

Cavalleria Rusticana which is Italian for "rustic chivalry"is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from an 1880 short ...

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 ...

Opera Santa Barbara (OSB) opens its 32nd season with a new production of Pietro Mascagni’s classic Italian drama “Cavalleria Rusticana,” Nov. 7 and Nov. 9 at the Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara. A ...

An exhilarating 80-minute torrent of an opera, Cavalleria rusticana is a classic tale of love, betrayal, and revenge. A massive hit with audiences at its premiere in 1890, Cavalleria has been a ...

Cavalleria rusticana, Italian for "rustic chivalry" is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from an 1880 short story ...

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 ...