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

Admin

Organization

Ténor

Gwyn Hughes Jones

Turiddu

Baryton

David Kempster

Alfio

Soprano

Camilla Roberts

Santuzza

Contralto

Anne-Marie Owens

Lucia

Mezzo-soprano

Rebecca Afonwy-Jones

Lola

Direction d'orchestre

Carlo Rizzi

Mise en scène

Elijah Moshinsky

Décors

Michael Yeargan

Costumes

Lumières

Howard Harrison

Canio

Tonio

Meeta Raval

Nedda

Gyula Nagy

Silvio

Enrique Bordolini

Imme Möller

Welsh National Opera

Orchestra

Welsh National Opera Orchestra

italien

Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci

Birmingham

Royaume-Uni

Hippodrome

Cardiff

Wales Millennium Centre

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

Public

Chevalerie rustique

Paillasse

anglais

gallois

Valide

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.

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