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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Two star tenors, Roberto Alagna and José Cura, take on the challenge of singing ...

Those who fear for the state of the major classical recording companies at present may well find their worst nightmares confirmed by this pair of discs, which feature crossover tenor Andrea Bocelli ...

The thing we tend to forget, in these days of iTunes and The X Factor is that the seemingly rarefied thing that is opera today was itself once a great money-making scheme. A successful opera, with ...

The Verdi Chorus, the only choral group in Southern California that focuses primarily on the dramatic and diverse music for opera chorus, continues to celebrate its 40th Anniversary season by ...

Setting Mascagni’s one-act opera amid the unease of 70s communist Poland, and moving Rachmaninoff’s to a colourful 90s surfing commune, the company does them both delectable justice Opera North’s ...

In this OCS twofer, Houston Public Media's St.John Flynn and Eric Skelly of the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra give quick intros to Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Ruggero Leoncavallo's ...

As the leading tenor in Pietro Mascagni’s “Cavalleria Rusticana” and Ruggero Leoncavallo’s “I Pagliacci” with the Westfield Symphony Orchestra on Saturday, Todd Geer has some meaty singing ahead of ...

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 ...

Before the fifth wave of the Covid-19 outbreak in Hong Kong forced the cancellation of all live performances for the 50th Hong Kong Arts Festival, Shanghai Opera House was scheduled to present a ...

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 ...