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Opera on 3: Live from the Met: Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci

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25/04/2015

Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci

BBC Radio 3 - Opera on 3, Live from the Met, Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci

Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci live from New York's Met.

Live from the Metropolitan Opera, New York, a performance of the ever-popular double-bill of Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, with tenor Marcelo Alvarez.

This evening's Opera on 3, Live from the Met, is the ever-popular double bill Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci. Both are set in southern Italy, one group of characters celebrating Easter, and the other the fun of the fair. But all is not as it seems, and concealed adultery and jealousy in both stories lead to tragic endings. Marcelo Alvarez plays the dual tenor roles of Turiddu and Canio, and Eva-Maria Westbroek and Patricia Racette the doomed heroines.

Presented by Mary Jo Heath and Ira Siff.

Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana
Santuzza.....Eva-Maria Westbroek (Soprano)
Turiddu.....Marcelo Alvarez (Tenor)
Lucia.....Jane Bunnell (Mezzo-soprano)
Alfio.....George Gagnidze (Baritone)
Lola.....Ginger Costa-Jackson (Mezzo-soprano)
New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus
Fabio Luisi (Conductor)

Leoncavallo: Pagliacci
Canio.....Marcelo Alvarez (Tenor)
Nedda.....Patricia Racette (Soprano)
Tonio.....George Gagnidze (Baritone)
Beppe.....Andrew Stenson (Main Artist)
Silvio.....Lucas Meachem (Baritone)
New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus
Fabio Luisi (Conductor).

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