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Opera double bill - Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Ruggero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci - performed as part of the Metropolitan Opera's...
Opera double bill - Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Ruggero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci - performed as part of the Metropolitan Opera's 2014-2015 season captured live in HD on the New York stage. Conducted by Fabio Luisi.
"Opera’s most enduring tragic double bill returns in an evocative new production from Sir David McVicar (Giulio Cesare), who sets the verismo action across two time periods but in the same Sicilian setting. Marcelo Álvarez rises to the challenge of playing the dual tenor roles of Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana and Canio in Pagliacci. Rae Smith (War Horse) has designed the moodily atmospheric 1900 village square setting of Cavalleria Rusticana, which transforms to a 1948 truck stop for the doomed vaudeville troupe of Pagliacci. Eva-Maria Westbroek and Patricia Racette play the unlucky heroines." (MetOpera)
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"A splendid, subtly contemporary view of the two verismo chestnuts, demonstrating that these fast-paced tales of jealousy and murder, with their explicit, hair-trigger emotionalism, still have the power to shock."
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Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal"One piece is black-and-white, the other polychrome; one stodgy, the other Stooge-y; one grim, the other strenuously entertaining."
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Vulture
Vulture"Over all, Mr. McVicar’s bleak, spare take on this enduring 1890 one-act, the breakthrough work of the Italian verismo movement, offers some insights into Mascagni’s drama of love, betrayal and revenge in a small Sicilian village."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"Despite passion in the pit, David McVicar’s double bill of operas failed to triumph."
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Financial Times
Financial Times
