Cavalleria Rusticana - Mascagni / Pagliacci - Leoncavallo

Starring: Plcido Domingo, Yelena Obraztsova Director: Franco Zeffirelli Original UK Premiere: 1983 Dvd Release: 9th May, 2005 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Closed-captioned, Colour, PAL, Region 0 Encoding

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Cavalleria Rusticana is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to a libretto by Targioni-Tozzetti & Menasci, adapted from a short story by Giovanni Verga. It premiered on May 17, 1890 at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome. It is often performed in a double bill with I Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo. While the curtain is down, Turiddu sings. The action takes place before the church. Devout pantomime by the church-goers; behind the scene, chorus of peasants. At last Santuzza & Lucia appear from opposite sides of the stage. Turiddu is the lover of Santuzza & she believes he has discarded her for Lola; she has seen him entering the young woman’s house. The carrier Alfio, the husband of Lola, appears with the chorus & also says that he has seen Turiddu, but thinks nothing wrong of it. When Lucia, who has sent her son to Frankofonte for wine, inquires further into the matter, she is asked to be silent by Santuzza. After the chorus with Alfio has departed, Santuzza recites her wrongs. Turiddu loved Lola, but after his service in the army found her married to Alfio.

Gianfranco Corsi, better known as Franco Zeffirelli, is an Italian film director. He is also an opera director, designer & producer of opera, theatre, motion pictures & television. Zeffirelli has also been a member of the Italian senate since 1996, representing the Forza Italia party. Zeffirelli was born & grew up in Florence, in contact with a group of British expatriates who inspired his 1999 film Tea With Mussolini. During the second world war he fought as a partisan before he met up with the British soldiers of the 1st Scots Guards & became their interpreter. In the post war years, he studied art & architecture at the University of Florence & worked with directors such as Vittorio De Sica, Roberto Rossellini & Luchino Visconti. In the 1960s, he made his name designing & directing his own plays in London & New York & soon transferred his ideas to cinema. A known anglophile, in November 2004 he was awarded an honorary knighthood by the United Kingdom, the first Italian citizen to receive the honour. Storia di una Capinera also known as Sparrow. Posters Of Aida

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