The Metropolitan Opera Presents: Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana/Leoncavallo's Pagliacci: Libretto, Background and Photos

by Guido Menasci, Giovanni Verga, Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti

Opera's most enduring tragic double bill of verismo masterpieces, Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci share many common features, most noticeably their direct language, plot simplicity, common-folk characters, and themes of adultery, betrayal, revenge, and murder. Written within two years of each other, and both set in villages in southern Italy, they feature dramatic confrontations, turbulent emotions, and gritty realism.

Cavalleria...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1574674633
• ISBN13: 9781574674637
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Amadeus
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.9"