Mascagni cavalleria rusticana herbert von karajan biography

Cavalleria rusticana is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from an 1880..

Cavalleria rusticana

opera by Pietro Mascagni

For other uses, see Cavalleria rusticana (disambiguation).

Cavalleria rusticana (pronounced[kavalleˈriːarustiˈkaːna]; Italian for 'Rustic Chivalry') is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from an short story of the same name and subsequent play by Giovanni Verga.

Considered one of the classic verismo operas, it premiered on 17 May at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.

Herbert von Karajan conducts Coro e Orchestra del Teatro Alla Scala for this recording of Pietro Mascagni's 1890 masterpiece "Cavalleria Rusticana".

Karajan's classic Cavalleria features an all Italian cast, headed by Fiorenza Cossotto and Carlo Bergonzi now available for the first time all newly remaster.

Cavalleria rusticana is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from an 1880.

Karajan and his La Scala forces bring a real feel of the theatre to these two much-loved works.

For the 1929-30 Ulm season Karajan was entrusted with five operas: Verdi's Rigoletto, Flotow's Martha, Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana (part of a double.

Since , it has often been performed in a so-called Cav/Pag double-bill with Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo.

Composition history

In July the Milanese music publisher Edoardo Sonzogno announced a competition open to all young Italian composers who had not yet had an opera performed on stage.

They were invited to submit a one-act opera which would be judged by a jury of five prominent Italian critics and composers. The best three would be staged in Rome at Sonzo