Name: Cavalleria rusticana
Start: 1978-04-05T00:00:00.000Z
End: 1978-04-05T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Metropolitan Opera House

Organization

Conductor

James Levine

Tenor

Plácido Domingo

Turiddu

Mezzo-soprano

Isola Jones

Lola

Singer

Teresa Stratas

Nedda

CANIO

Sherrill Milnes

Tonio

The Metropolitan Opera

Others

Metropolitan Opera Choir

Orchestra

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

Italian

Cavalleria rusticana -  (Rustic Chivalry)

New York City

United States

Metropolitan Opera House

This video captures a real rarity: one of the very few times the brilliant Plácido Domingo performed both of the great tenors roles during the same evening at the Met. Domingo singing either Turiddu (in Cavalleria) or Canio (in Pagliacci) would be remarkable, but to get both in the same incandescent performance is to see history. With James Levine’s passionate conducting, Franco Zeffirelli’s iconic production, and the sensational singing actors Tatiana Troyanos (Santuzza), Teresa Stratas (Nedda), and Sherrill Milnes (Tonio), these searing one-act operas blaze.

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