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
In Germany and Czechoslovakia she sang in Tosca and the part of free-&-easy Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana, which was her role the fifth night in Cleveland last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Mascagni is associated with one opera only, the Cavalleria Rusticana, with its intermezzo which gave it popularity.
From Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women by Benton, Caroline French
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