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Formats and Editions
1. Opera Explained: Cavalleria rusticana: Background: Introduction
2. Opera Explained: Cavalleria rusticana: Background: History
3. Opera Explained: Cavalleria rusticana: Background: The bel canto: Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti
4. Opera Explained: Cavalleria rusticana: Background: Verdi
5. Opera Explained: Cavalleria rusticana: Background: Puccini and the verismo school
6. Opera Explained: Cavalleria rusticana: Background: Bizet's Carmen
7. Opera Explained: Cavalleria rusticana: Background: Mascagni
8. Opera Explained: Cavalleria rusticana: Background: Mascagni's other operas
9. Opera Explained: Cavalleria rusticana: Cavalleria rusticana: Prelude and Sicilian setting
10. Opera Explained: Cavalleria rusticana: Cavalleria rusticana: Beginning
11. Opera Explained: Cavalleria rusticana: Cavalleria rusticana: The Easter Hymn
12. Opera Explained: Cavalleria rusticana: Cavalleria rusticana: Sin and sanctity
13. Opera Explained: Cavalleria rusticana: Cavalleria rusticana: Santuzza confronts Turiddu
14. Opera Explained: Cavalleria rusticana: Cavalleria rusticana: Intermezzo
15. Opera Explained: Cavalleria rusticana: Cavalleria rusticana: Turiddu drinks and Alfio makes his challenge
16. Opera Explained: Cavalleria rusticana: Cavalleria rusticana: Turiddu says goodbye before the duel
More Info:
Cavalleria rusticana is the short opera that has all the elements of a grand opera compressed into a single highly dramatic time span. The story of love, lust, blood-feud and betrayal played out against the pageantry of the Easter celebrations in a Sicilian village delivers an emotional wallop because of the youthful vigor and musical wealth of it's great score which includes the glorious Easter Hymn and the deeply moving Intermezzo. Mascagni was never to repeat his youthful success but this brief work is enough to ensure his immortality. 1 CD with 12-page booklet.
