Two 90-minute operas with the same directors give some one-hit wonders a grand if occasionally formal double bill.

The thing we tend to forget, in these days of iTunes and The X Factor is that the seemingly rarefied thing that is opera today was itself once a great money-making scheme. A successful opera, with ...

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NEWBURYPORT — The Metropolitan Opera’s 2022-23 season of Saturday matinee radio broadcasts continues with a treasure from the Met archives: the double bill of Mascagni’s “Cavalleria Rusticana” and ...

Opera Santa Barbara (OSB) opens its 32nd season with a new production of Pietro Mascagni’s classic Italian drama “Cavalleria Rusticana,” Nov. 7 and Nov. 9 at the Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara. A ...

Sir David McVicar directs the first new Met production of the popular verismo double bill in 45 years: Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, both with Marcelo Álvarez as the male lead. Eva-Maria ...

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