CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA***/PAGLIACCI**** (Royal Opera)

                                                                 By Imogen

Link: https://stream.roh.org.uk/packages/cavalleria-rusticana-pagliacci-2015/videos/cavalleria-rusticana-pagliacci-2015 £3

Available until: 9 October 2020

Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci are short operas of about 70 and 75 minutes long and they’re famous for being performed together. Pagliacci was written when the composer Ruggiero Leoncavallo saw Pietro Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana and thought he could do that too. And he did. Better than Mascagni. But Cav & Pag (as some lazy people call them even though there’s no G sound in Pagliacci if you say it right, it’s Pal-yee-AR-chi) were linked from that moment and they go together like me and Jordan Henderson. Or me and Shawn Mendes. Or me and Giovanni Pernice.