PIETRO MASCAGNI
Cavalleria Rusticana
Pietro Mascagni’s most famous opera, Cavalleria Rusticana, is based on the novel of the same name written by Giovanni Verga and was soon considered as an example of the verismo movement. The first performance was held in Rome in 1890 and was an immediate success, bringing fame to the young Mascagni. The libretto was quickly written by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci for the composer to present his opera for a competition, which he went on to win, held by the Milan-based music publishers, Sonzogno.
The story is set in a small village in Sicily on Easter day. Turiddu returns from military service to discover that Lola, the girl he is in love with, has married Alfio, the carter. To console himself, Turiddu seduces Santuzza, but then neglects and rejects her. Santuzza, realising that Turiddu is still in love with Lola, is jealous and confesses to Alfio that his wife has been unfaithful. The two man challenge each other to a duel in which Turiddu is killed.
Production TCBO
ruggero leoncavallo
Pagliacci
This opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo was inspired by a real event that took place in a small town in Basilicata in the late nineteenth century. The opera tells of a story of jealousy in a theatre troupe which ends with the two lovers, Nedda and Silvio, being killed by Nedda’s husband, Canio. The first performance of Pagliacci was held in Milan in 1892 and was directed by the young, and at the time, little known Arturo Toscanini. The opera was an immediate success for Leoncavallo, who was not as lucky however with subsequent productions.
Because of their short duration and same historical period, Pagliacci and Cavalleria Rusticana have been performed together, from the outset.
New production of Teatro Comunale di Bologna with Grand Théâtre de Genève
15 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 December 2019
PRESENTING PARTNER:
SUN | 15 | DEC | Series Prima | H: 20.00
TUE | 17 | DEC | Series C | H: 18.00
WED | 18 | DEC | Series A | H: 20.00
THU | 19| DEC | Series P | H: 18.00
FRI | 20 | DEC | Series B | H: 20.00
SAT | 21 | DEC | FUORI ABBONAMENTO | H: 20.00
SUN | 22 | DEC | Series D | H: 15.30
Cavalleria Rusticana
CAST
SANTUZZA
Sonia Ganassi
17 | 19 | 21
TURIDDU
Roberto Aronica
15 | 18 | 20 | 22
TURIDDU
Angelo Villari
17 | 19 | 21
ALFIO
Dalibor Jenis
15 | 18 | 20 | 22
ALFIO
Fabián Veloz
17 | 19 | 21
COMPOSER
Pietro Antonio Stefano Mascagni (Livorno, 7 December 1863 – Rome, 2 August 1945) was an Italian composer and orchestra conductor.
Mascagni lived between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, holding a prominent position on the music scene at the time, thanks above all to his immediate and popular success with his first opera, Cavalleria Rusticana in 1890. Mascagni went on to compose another 15 operas, gaining a worldwide popularity, along with only a handful of other composers. However only some of his works have become part of standard repertoires, such as Iris, with 800 productions of the performance.
STAGE DESIGN
CARMINE MARINGOLA
COSTUME DESIGN
VANESSA SANNINO
LIGHTING DESIGN
CRISTIAN ZUCARO
CHOREOGRAPHY
MANUELA LO SICCO
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
GIANNI MARRAS
STAGE ASSISTANT
ROBERTO TUSA
CHOIR CONDUCTOR
ALBERTO MALAZZI
In cooperation with la Scuola di Teatro di Bologna Alessandra Galante Garrone
Pagliacci
CAST
NEDDA | COLOMBINA
Carmen Solis
17 | 19 | 21
TONIO | TADDEO
Fabián Veloz
17 | 19 | 21
BEPPE | ARLECCHINO
Paolo Antognetti
15, 18, 20, 22
BEPPE | ARLECCHINO
Marco Puggioni
17 | 19 | 21
SILVIO
SILVIO
COMPOSER
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Ruggero Leoncavallo (Naples, 23 April 1857 – Montecatini Terme, 9 August 1919) was an Italian composer, and wrote operas and operettas.
Ruggero Leoncavallo was one of the most important members of the verismo movement. Above all in Pagliacci, he demonstrated a strong sense of drama and generous melody, to immediate effect. However, despite having a more solid culture than other protagonists of the verismo movement (he held a degree in literature so he was able to write the librettos of some of his operas), he was confined within the Italian “young school”, with influences from Bizet, Verdi, and to a lesser extent Wagner. He tried to escape the clutches of verismo, for example in La Bohème (1897), of comic-sentimental overtones in Zingari (1912), of the exotic style of Goffredo Mameli (1916) and Oedipus Re (1920), but was no longer able to find that concision, and force of expression and impetuous and striking melodic tone of his masterpiece, Pagliacci, the quintessence of musical verismo (the famous Prologue is a superb example)
STAGE DESIGN
MARIA SPAZZI
COSTUME DESIGN
CARLA TETI
LIGHTING DESIGN
CLAUDIO DE PACE
CHOIR CONDUCTOR
ALBERTO MALAZZI
CHILDREN’S CHORUS MASTER
ALHAMBRA SUPERCHI