Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana (Video)
Cavalleria rusticana, is a one-act melodrama with music by Pietro Mascagni and libretto in Italian by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, based on a story by novelist Giovanni Verga. Considered one of the classic operas of verismo, it premiered on May 17, 1890 at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.
Cavalleria Rusticana, the Opera that Made Pietro Mascagni
In the history of the Opera tradition, many genres developed over the centuries. The post-Romantic Verismo (Italian for realism) tradition stood apart for its naturalism and for focusing on the lives of the average contemporary people, subjects considered until then too poor and unfit to be protagonists of such pieces. In the Verismo movement, the […]