Pietro Mascagni News

At Duck Walk Vineyards this week, all it takes for a good time is to mix one part revenge with a singing policeman, a little Italian and a glass of wine to concoct the perfect blend of entertainment.

Dolora Zajick and Salvatore Licitra of the Washington National Opera perform Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana" with conductor Riccardo Frizza.

In Italy around 1890, thanks to a new genre called verismo, the lives of ordinary people caught up in everyday trials and tragedies, especially those involving lots of sex and violence, became the stuff of ...

The Teatro Massimo from Palermo in Sicily will be the guest foreign company at the Savonlinna Opera Festival in 2009, according to information gathered by . via Helsingin Sanomat

Arts and culture enlivened central-city Toledo last night - from the Mud Hens rematch with the Rochester Red Wings at Fifth Third Field to recitals by pianist Stephen Hough at the Peristyle and chamber music by ... via Toledo Blade

'Cavalleria Rusticana' and 'I Pagliacci' at San Diego Opera, enjoyed by MARIA NOCKIN Verismo , a literary style sometimes translated as Realism, Neo-realism or even Extravagant Realism, began in France during ... via Music and Vision Daily

“For every artist, it is a kind of self-portrait”

San Diego Opera presents "Cavalleria Rusticana" by Pietro Mascagni and "Pagliacci" by Ruggero Leoncavallo When: 7 p.m. Saturday and March 25, 8 p.m. March 28, 2 p.m. March 30 and 7 p.m. April 2 Where: Civic ... via San Diego Union-Tribune

The Skokie Valley Symphony Orchestra has been hosting a lively three-part narrative in music this season, and this weekend is the climax, The Murder. via Chicago Sun-Times

“Very understanding and yet demanding at the same.”

There's a certain truth about opera, regardless of what language it's sung in or when it was written: Drama is key. via Arizona Daily Star