Pietro Mascagni (1863–1945)
Cavalleria rusticana
Ezgi Kutlu Santuzza
Aldo Di Toro Turiddu
Cheryl Studer Lucia
Audun Iversen Alfio
Mareike Jankowski Lola
Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857–1919)
Pagliacci
Aldo Di Toro Canio
Aurelia Florian Nedda
Audun Iversen Tonio
Martin Fournier Beppo
Neven Crnic Silvio
Sangyeon Chae 1. Bauer
Christian Scherler 2. Bauer
Choir & Extrachoir of the Oper Graz
Singschul’ of the Oper Graz
Grazer Philharmonic Orchestra
Oksana Lyniv
This is where two one-hit-wonders of nineteenth-century
Italian operas meet. Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana was
first performed in Rome in 1890 and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci
in Milan two years later.
The subject of Cavalleria rusticana is based on a then very
popular peasant tragedy by Giovanni Verga. Pagliacci
draws on the play La femme de Tabarin by Catulle Mendès,
with the libretto by the composer. Both operas premiered
on 29 September, 2018 at the Oper Graz with the Grazer
Philharmoniker under the direction of Oksana Lyniv.