Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci - BLU-RAY

Mascagni's first and most successful work has become an opera classic as it features elements of the Greek tragedy, mixing up religious and archaic elements. It's a story of love, passion, jealousy and restored honor in bloodshed. Directors Di Gangi and Giacomazzi set this traditional Cavalleria in a Sicilian village of the 1940s where the buildings are rather bare and the piazza is the stage for private as well as public drama. Conductor Valerio Galli is at the head of the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, one of the best in Italy. Good performance reviews for the whole cast. InchThe star of the show is Angelo Villari, who plays an impeccable Turiddu. Thanks to his warm and fiery voice, the Italian tenor adds credibility to a complex character, torn between passion and sensitivity... Soprano Alexia Voulgaridou portrays a perfect, melancholic Santuzza. She possesses an excellent vocal instrument and her voice is lyrical, dramatic and emotionally engaging... Marina Ogii is a Lola imbued with charm and sensuality, with a warm and cleverly projected voice... Elena Zilio is a well-centered and engaging Mamma Lucia, with a magnetic stage presence and an incredible expressive talent... Lorenzo Fratini is at the head of the chorus which provides excellent and powerful contributions to the performance. Inch (connessiallopera. It)

Violeta Urmana, Vincenzo La Scola, Marco di Felice, Vladimir Galouzine, Maria Bayo, and Carlo Guelfi star in these operas by Mascagni and Leoncavallo directed by Giancarlo del Monaco with Jesus Lopez Cobos conducting the Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real (Madrid Symphony Orchestra & Chorus).

Premiered on May 21st, 1892 at Milan's Teatro Dal Verme under the baton of Arturo Toscanini, Pagliacci was immediately a huge success, and today it's Leoncavallo's most represented operas as InchVesti la giubbaInch is perhaps one of the most famous operatic arias of all times. The composer drew inspiration from a real incident that had occurred in a Calabrian town, an incident steeped in love and death, which inspired him to write his personal contribution to the new stylistic-aesthetic trends of Italian opera. In the Prologue, Leoncavallo inserted an outright manifesto of Verismo (Inchreal theatreInch). His aim was to Inchpaint a scene from real lifeInch and since Inchthe artist is a person, [...] he should write for the people. Therefore, he took inspiration from real life.Inch In the story of Nedda, Tonio and Canio we therefore find a well combined mix of art and reality, operatic theatre and life, with the second almost taking over the first, to the extent that the chorus, towards the end, exclaims, InchThis scene seems so real!Inch This production was recorded at Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in September 2019 and it was acclaimed as a great success by the critics. Conductor Valerio Galli Inchreads the score with the proper technique, succeeding in enhancing all the various shades for each scene... Pagliacci is conducted with passion... a careful eye to the dramatic development of the story and the sound is rendered with a variety of shades and colorsInch.