Name: Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci
Start: 2016-05-26T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2016-06-11T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Wales Millennium Centre

Admin

Organization

Tenor

Gwyn Hughes Jones

Turiddu

Baritone

David Kempster

Alfio

Soprano

Camilla Roberts

Santuzza

Contralto

Mezzo-soprano

Anne-Marie Owens

Lucia

Rebecca Afonwy-Jones

Lola

Conductor

Conductor (+1)

Carlo Rizzi

Stage director

Elijah Moshinsky

Set designer

Set designer (+1)

Michael Yeargan

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Howard Harrison

Canio

Tonio

Meeta Raval

Nedda

Gyula Nagy

Silvio

Enrique Bordolini

Imme Möller

Welsh National Opera ( WNO )

Orchestra

Welsh National Opera Orchestra - WNO

Wales Millennium Centre

Hippodrome

Italian

Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci

Birmingham

United Kingdom

Cardiff

Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci: Cavalleria rusticana Mascagni (+1 More)

Staged

Opera

Rustic Chivalry

Pagliacci

English

Welsh

Approved

This double bill is full-on and intense as Italian opera gets; each opera packing-in much high drama and powerful music – in just over an hour.

In Summer 2016, marking 70 years of WNO was a time to reflect. What better way to do this than with the double bill that started it all?

This perfect pairing of tragedies was our first performance in 1946. Cav & Pag (as they are affectionately known) are as full-on and intense as Italian opera gets. Each opera packs-in much high drama and powerful music in just over an hour.

Cavalleria rusticana’s highlights include the glorious Easter Hymn and Intermezzo. Pagliacci features one of the greatest of all tenor arias, ‘Vesti la giubba’, in which the clown Canio has just learnt that his wife is having an affair. He pitifully dwells on his situation while getting ready to take to the stage. He must act the fool on stage while dying inside. The sumptuous period-set production features a recreation of a Sicilian village square. It is only fitting that the cast for these birthday performances includes some of Wales’s greatest opera talent.

Everyone who enjoys the elegance and pageantry of opera will want to embrace Cav & Pag.

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble