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Opera Explained: MASCAGNI - Cavalleria rusticana (Smillie)
Label Catalogue Number:
8.55808
8.55808
ISBN: 9781843793205
Download Size: 63 Mb
Running Time: 01:16:31
Download Size: 63 Mb
Running Time: 01:16:31
Digital UPC: 9781843793205
Release Date: February 2004
Originally recorded in 2004
Release Date: February 2004
Originally recorded in 2004
Author
Thomson Smillie
Thomson Smillie
Composer
Pietro Mascagni
Pietro Mascagni
Reader
David Timson
David Timson
Genre:
Spoken Word
Spoken Word
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Opera Explained: MASCAGNI - Cavalleria rusticana (Smillie)
Read by David Timson
Cavalleria rusticana is the short opera that has all the elements of a grand opera compressed into a single highly dramatic time span. The story of love, lust, blood-feud and betrayal played out against the pageantry of the Easter celebrations in a Sicilian village delivers an emotional wallop because of the youthful vigour and musical wealth of its great score which includes the glorious Easter Hymn and the deeply moving Intermezzo. Mascagni was never to repeat his youthful success but this brief work is enough to ensure his immortality.
