Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana – Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci (Blu-ray Sampler)
Here are two timeless stories of love, honor, justice and violence a highlight for every opera lover. Pietro Mascagnis Cavalleria rusticana and Ruggero Leoncavallos Pagliacci speak to ones heart and soul. They are regarded as the most absorbing tragedies of Italian music theater. Adultery, jealousy and betrayal are leading to passionate conflicts that jointly connect …
Dvorak s enchanting fairytale of the water-nymph Rusalka has been a signature role for Renée Fleming for the past 25 years.The Gramophone Classical Music Guide writes: Renée Fleming’s tender and heartwarming account of Rusalka’s Song to the Moon reflects the fact that the role of the lovelorn water nymph, taken by her in a highly successful production at …
Based on an historical case, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakovs The Tsars Bride takes place in the suburbs of Moscow during the reign of Tsar Ivan IV, the Terrible, during the latter half of the 16th c. Widowed, he is looking for a new wife, his third. He chooses the young Marfa. She loves another man but bends …