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
"To wake me up before dawn so that I may begin to write on 'Cavalleria rusticana.'"
From A Second Book of Operas by Krehbiel, Henry Edward
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 Krehbiel, Henry Edward
Intermezzo from Cavalleria rusticana; biographical sketch and glossary, fingering, phrasing, pedaling and instructive annotations on form and structure and interpretation by Arthur Edward Johnstone; pf.
From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1958 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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