He studied music at a Naples conservatory and literature at the University of Bologna.
He was six years older than Mascagni, born in Naples and brought up in Montalto Uffugo in Calabria. It was the success of Cavalleria Rusticana, premiered in 1890, which inspired Leoncavallo (1857-1919) to try his hand. Because it is a short work lasting about an hour and 20 minutes, it is often performed on a double bill with another short opera, Pagliacci ( The Clowns) by Ruggero Leoncavallo, the combination being widely known as ‘Cav and Pag’. Opera Bastille is at a short distance from our Hotel Louvre Marsollier Opera Paris.LAST week I wrote about the Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni.
The show lasts approximately 2 hours and 50 minutes and includes 2 intermissions. The performance of Tosca at Opera Bastille is led by conductor Dan Ettinger and gathers some of the best operatic singers including Anja Harteros, Liudmyla Monastyrska, Marcelo Alvarez, Bryn Terfel, Sergey Artamonov, Alexander Tsymbalyuk, Jean-Philippe Lafont, Carlo Bosi, Pierpaolo Palloni, and André Heyboer. It is inspired from the French play, La Tosca (1887) by Victorien Sardou with a libretto to the two librettists Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. Written by Puccini in cooperation with the Italian composer Franco Alfano, Tosca is actually considered among the best operas that have been created in the early 20 th century. Until October 18, 2016, Opera Bastille will be putting on a show of the prominent Italian composer Giacomo Puccini’s melodrama, Tosca (1900). Photo © Polly Braden / Millennium Images, UK
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