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 ...

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 ...

Opera Orlando artistic director Grant Preisser had a nifty idea: There are two shortish operas, both set in a town square in Sicily, both taking place in a single day and both dealing with love and ...

Cavalleria rusticana, 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 story ...

Opera Santa Barbara (OSB) opens its 32nd season with a new production of Pietro Mascagni’s classic Italian drama “Cavalleria Rusticana,” Nov. 7 and Nov. 9 at the Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara. A ...

San Francisco Opera unveiled its 96th season Friday with a satisfying production, new to the War Memorial Opera House, of the traditionally paired Italian verismo staples, Mascagni’s “Cavalleria ...

An exhilarating 80-minute torrent of an opera, Cavalleria rusticana is a classic tale of love, betrayal, and revenge. A massive hit with audiences at its premiere in 1890, Cavalleria has been 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 ...

The Verdi Chorus' 40th Anniversary season continues with its first opera, Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana for one performance only at the First Presbyterian Church in Santa Monica on January 20 ...

This month, Lyric Opera of Chicago is putting on a murderous operatic double feature of Mascagni’s “Cavalleria Rusticana” and Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci.” The remaining performances will be at 7:30 p.m.