Opera Cheat Sheet: Cavalleria Rusticana And Pagliacci (revised)

 In this OCS twofer, Houston Public Media’s St.John Flynn and Eric Skelly of the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra give quick intros to Pietro Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, late 19th-century one-act operas, often paired on the same program as Cav & Pag, that define the verismo movement.In Cavalleria Rusticana, a young man learns what happens to a guy who sleeps with another man’s wife when his girlfriend is pregnant! Pagliacci is the story... Read More