New Production! Two operatic masterpieces tell dark tales of passionate love and violent jealousy. Award-winning director Damiano Michieletto sets them both in a poverty-stricken village in 1980s southern Italy, where the Mafia has a hold. Antonio Pappano conducts a terrific cast including charismatic Dutch soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek, exciting Italian soprano Carmen Giannattasio and thrilling Latvian tenor Aleksandrs Antonenko.
Royal Opera
Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci
In Cinemas 22, 23, 24, & 27 Jan 2016
- Conductor
- Antonio Pappano
- Orchestra
- Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
- Cast
- Eva-Maria Westbroek, Dimitri Platanias, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Carmen Giannattasio
- Composer
- Pietro Mascagni, Ruggero Leoncavallo
- Director
- Damiano Michieletto
- Set Design
- Paolo Fantin
- Duration
- approx.3h incl. interval
Sung in Italian, with English subtitles
Captured live from Covent Garden, London 10 Dec 2015
4 stars! Michieletto is not the first to contrive a dramatic connection between these works, but his method is ingenious. A triumphant evening, supported by superb work by adult and junior choruses, and by orchestral playing under Antonio PappanoMichael Church, The Independent