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Mascagni

American  
[mahs-kah-nyee] / mɑsˈkɑ nyi /

noun

  1. Pietro 1863–1945, Italian operatic composer.


Mascagni British  
/ masˈkaɲɲi /

noun

  1. Pietro (ˈpjɛːtro). 1863–1945, Italian composer of operas, including Cavalleria rusticana (1890)

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“The issue brings together strange bedfellows,” says Evan Mascagni, policy director of the Public Participation Project, an advocacy group for anti-SLAPP laws.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 16, 2021

“As more states are adopting anti-SLAPP laws, we are starting to see clever plaintiffs looking to weaker jurisdictions where they can file these lawsuits and not be subject to anti-SLAPP motions,” Mascagni said.

From Washington Post • Dec. 22, 2019

It was Intermezzo of the opera “Cavalleria Rusticana” by Pietro Mascagni.

From Washington Times • Aug. 12, 2017

Puccini’s contemporary Mascagni is best known for the lavish yet direct one-act “Cavalleria Rusticana”; if “Iris,” too, is certainly lavish, it’s also sprawling and overcooked.

From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2016

In 1893, the year of Gounod's death, opera lovers at Covent Garden made the acquaintance of the younger school of Italian composers in Mascagni and Leoncavallo.

From Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science by Mackinlay, M. (Malcolm) Sterling

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