rusticana
Britishplural noun
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The season had opened the previous week with Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci – Cav and Pag – that double dollop of bleak but tuneful Italian verismo which helped pave the way to Butterfly.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 15, 2013
Often they are passed off as mere charming rusticana; titles like The Lark and The Sunrise do not help.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Zanetto" was produced along with "Cavalleria rusticana" at the Metropolitan Opera House on October 8, 1902, and "Iris" on October 16.
From A Second Book of Operas by Henry Edward Krehbiel
What the composer accomplished with tune, characteristic but fluent, eloquent yet sustained, in "Cavalleria rusticana," he tries to achieve in "Iris" with violent, disjointed, shifting of keys and splashes of instrumental color.
From A Second Book of Operas by Henry Edward Krehbiel
It was but natural that, after "Cavalleria rusticana" had virulently affected the whole world with what the enemies of Signor Mascagni called "Mascagnitis," his next opera should be looked forward to with feverish anxiety.
From A Second Book of Operas by Henry Edward Krehbiel
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