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 ...

Two powerful women will be at the helm when Opera San José returns in the new year with the operatic double bill of Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci. See photos here!

When Florida Grand Opera opens the curtain on its midseason production, I Pagliacci, it will be close to 82 years to the day that the Miami Opera Guild, the precursor to Florida Grand Opera, performed ...

Tenor Limmie Pulliam has the iconic role of the clown Canio in Florida Grand Opera’s production of Ruggero Leoncavallo’s “I Pagliacci” — and he agrees with the assessment of great singers before him, ...

1 Washington National Opera Announces Plans to Leave the Kennedy Center 2 Post Kennedy Center Split, Washington National Opera Sets Stephen Schwartz Hosted WEST SIDE STORY Gala & More San Diego Opera ...

Ask the average Seattleite what they think of when they hear the word pagliacci and they’re almost guaranteed to answer “pizza”—or, maybe, “class action lawsuit.” One hundred years ago, though, the ...

Paul Groves was a child when he first heard that classic, mournful tenor aria usually sung by a clown on opera stages. The song — specifically one of its passages — is usually recognized even by those ...

RUNTIME: About two hours, including one intermission and on-stage extra performances (see below). THUMBNAIL SKETCH: In the long history of the performing arts, traveling troupes would go from town to ...