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Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci - April 25, 2015

The Metropolitan Opera

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Matinee broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera continue on Classical 90.5 at 10:00 a.m. this Saturday, April 25, with a double performance: Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni and Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo. The broadcast will run approximately three hours and thirty minutes.

Opera’s most enduring tragic double bill returns in an evocative new production from Sir David McVicar (Giulio Cesare, Maria Stuarda, Il Trovatore), who places the verismo action across two time periods, but in the same Sicilian setting. Marcelo Álvarez rises to the challenge of playing the dual tenor roles of Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana and Canio in Pagliacci. Eva-Maria Westbroek (Cav) and Patricia Racette (Pag) play the unlucky heroines.

The Lincoln Center audience will see production designer Rae Smith's (War Horse) moodily atmospheric 1900 village square setting of Cavalleria Rusticana, which transforms to a 1948 truck stop for the doomed vaudeville troupe of Pagliacci. Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi is on the podium.

CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA CAST
Santuzza: Eva-Marie Westbroek
Turridu: Marcelo Álvarez
Alfio: Željko Lučić

PAGLIACCI CAST
Nedda: Patricia Racette
Canio: Marcelo Álvarez
Tonio: George Gagnidze
Silvio: Lucas Meachem

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