Cavalleria rusticana

The Opera Explained Series - Book 0

Cavalleria rusticana

By Thomson Smillie
Unabridged
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Cavalleria rusticana is a short opera that has all the elements of a grand opera compressed into a single highly dramatic time span. The story of love, lust, blood feud, and betrayal played out against the pageantry of the Easter celebrations in a Sicilian village delivers an emotional wallop with its youthful vigor and the musical wealth of its great score—including the glorious Easter Hymn and the deeply moving Intermezzo. Mascagni was never to repeat his youthful success but this brief work is enough to ensure his immortality.