Cavalleria Rusticana
Americannoun
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It is impossible to watch round 13 without the hauntingly beautiful intermezzo from Pietro Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana providing subconscious backing music.
From The Guardian • Feb. 8, 2016
In a relatively rare feat, he'll sing the leads in both halves of opera's favorite twin bill: Pietro Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana" and Ruggero Leoncavallo's "I Pagliacci."
From US News • Apr. 23, 2015
The only really well-known pieces are those from Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, which Kaufmann delivers with the same directness and perfectly judged musicality that he uses for the far less familiar ones.
From The Guardian • Dec. 16, 2010
Included in this catalogue are the familiar intermezzos from that perennial double bill, Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, and less well-known interludes by Cilea, Catalani and Wolf-Ferrari.
From Time Magazine Archive
D'Annunzio is no doubt a better writer than Capuana or Verga, and his play is finer as literature than "Cavalleria Rusticana" or "Malia."
From Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory by Symons, Arthur
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