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Mascagni - Cavalleria Rusticana

01/03/2012

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Katie Derham presents a performance of Mascagni's opera Cavalleria Rusticana.

Katie Derham presents Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana in a performance from the Berwaldhallen in Stockholm. Plus Bruckner's Symphony No 3 played by the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.

Today's Thursday Opera Matinee is Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana in a performance given 2 weeks ago at the Berwaldhallen in Stockholm. Turiddu returns from military service to find that his fiancée, Lola has married another. In response he seduces Santuzza, causing a jealous Lola to begin an adulterous affair with him. This is followed by a performance of Bruckner's Symphony no.3 in a performance by the Leipzig Gewandhaus under Herbert Blomstedt.

Presented by Katie Derham.

Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana 
Santuzza ..... Paoletta Marrocu (soprano), 
Turiddu ..... Thiago Arancam (tenor),
Mamma Lucia ..... Elena Zilio (mezzo-soprano),
Alfio ..... Lucio Gallo (baritone), 
Lola ..... Giuseppina Piunti (soprano),
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus
Daniel Harding (conductor)

Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 in D minor 
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra 
Herbert Blomstedt, conductor:.

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