Local mezzo-soprano a winner in Met Opera district auditions Oct 31, 2008
Her prepared arias in Seattle included works by Mascagni, Purcell, Massenet, Mozart and Robert Ward. The big prize in this international search for up-and-coming singers ages 20-30 is the chance to work with the Met's young artist program. (Anchorage Daily News)
Arts and Entertainment Oct 29, 2008
The European opera touring company, Teatro Lirico d'Europa, made a smashing performance at the Touhill Performing Arts Center on Wednesday, Oct. 15, at 7:30 p.m. The double-bill featured two classic operas: "Cavalleria Rusticana" and "I Pagliacci." The operas were written in the late 1890s by, respectively, Ruggiero Leoncavallo and Pietro Mascagni, who wrote the music and lyrics. (8/15/07) | (4/28/08) (8/23/07) | (8/25/07). (The Current Online, MO)
* Bravo Bocellli Apr 18, 2008
There are operatic arias from Puccini, Verdi and Mascagni, followed by popular 19th-century songs culminating in O Sole Mio. Only Nessum dorma seems to be missing, but you can be fairly sure itll appear as an encore. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Winona Symphony Orchestra borrows from 100-year-old program for celebratory concert Apr 17, 2008
The program features The Damnation of Faust by Charles Gounod; Je Dis Rien ne M epouvante by Georges Bizet, featuring soprano soloist Suzanne Draayer; and the prelude and siciliana from Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni. It also features two works by American composers with A Day in Venice by Ethelbert Nevin and Negro Episode by Henry F. Gilbert. (Winona Daily News, MN)
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MASCAGNI, LEONCAVALLO. Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
A pair of aces Mar 17, 2008
San Diego Opera presents "Cavalleria Rusticana" by Pietro Mascagni and "Pagliacci" by Ruggero Leoncavallo. When: 7 p.m. Saturday and March 25, 8 p.m. March 28, 2 p.m. March 30 and 7 p.m. April 2. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Pier Miranda Ferraro, tenor, 83, dies in Milan Jan 19, 2008
ROME (AP): Pier Miranda Ferraro, an Italian tenor who sang in the 1960s and 1970s and was noted for his interpretation of Giuseppe Verdi's "Otello,'' died on Friday in his home in Milan, family members said. He was 83. A grandson, Damiano Beltotto, said his grandfather died of cardiac arrest in his sleep. The singer was born Pietro Ferraro in 1924 in Altivole, near Treviso, northeast Italy. He took the stage name Pier Miranda Ferraro, borrowing the middle name from the name of his wife. He made... (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
The conductor Lorin Maazel: Back at the Met, after 45 years Jan 7, 2008
Published: January 7, 2008. Right conductor, wrong podium. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Italian Composer Pietro Mascagni Oct 10, 2007
Pietro Mascagni's brief biography - his life and contribution to Italian opera, in particular, Verismo (Realism) movement ... Pietro Mascagni is known for the lyrical Easter Hymn and the passionate but tragic interlude of "Intermezzo from his opera Cavallaria Rusticana (Rustic chivalry.) Intermezzo was used in the film Raging Bull. Mascagni's Early Training A baker s son, Mascagni was born on December 7, 1863, in Livorno, Italy. His father wanted him to take up law so he studied music secretly.... (Suite101.com)
Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana Sep 9, 2007
" The villagers pray and return to church. Santuzza explains to Mamma Lucia that Turiddu loved Lola but returned from the army only to find her married to Alfio. Trying to forget his pain, Turiddu turned to Santuzza. Things were okay a while until Lola decides to win Turiddu back. When Lola became his mistress, he neglected Santuzza. Turiddu arrives and Santuzza warns him that Alfio knows of his affair. She vents her anger on Lola, asking after Alfio. When Lola acts surprised that they are not... (Suite101.com)
Here's to romance: Saturday at the Franchi Estate Sep 7, 2007
A dozen other talented singers will take the stage for arias, duets and ensembles by the likes of Puccini, Verdi, Mascagni, Lerner & Loewe and George Gershwin. Accompanied by a full orchestra under the baton of Jeffrey Domoto, they ll be celebrating the generosity of the Sergio Franchi Music Foundation, for giving them such a delightful break in the world of classical and romantic music. (Westerly Sun, RI)
Obituary: Luciano Pavarotti Sep 6, 2007
When he was born, Mascagni and Giordano were still alive and writing: they have had no Italian operatic heirs. Pavarotti possessed a voice of pure gold that matured in strength and depth of colour as he aged, without losing its innate ravishing beauty, precision and expressiveness. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Sydney Symphony's 2008 program Aug 30, 2007
His farewell programs next September will be a personal pops program (if Beethoven's seventh symphony can fit that description) including music by Wagner, Verdi, Mascagni and Ravel. A major additional assignment for him will be conducting Beethoven's monumental Solemn Mass in D (better known as the Missa Solemnis) to coincide with World Youth Day festivities in July. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Musica turns up the heat in operatic double bill Jun 6, 2007
Not so with Chorus pro Musica, which ended its season on Sunday in Jordan Hall with a classic double serving of operatic naturalism: "Cavalleria Rusticana" by Mascagni and "I Pagliacci" by Leoncavallo. Far from the concert-opera norm, these were engagingly hot-blooded performances, and if some musical details occasionally fell by the wayside, music director Jeffrey Rink and his collected forces succeeded in bringing the elemental passion and fevered expressivity of this music clearly to the... (Boston Globe)
'Advance the knowledge of audience' May 7, 2007
user and the double bill of Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, which will showcase tenors Richard Leech and Jose Cura ... Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni and Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo 7 p.m. March 22 and 25; 8 p.m. March 28; 2 p.m. March 30, and 7 p.m. April 2. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
