CSO Program Notes: Cavalleria Rusticana

03/02/2020 17 min
CSO Program Notes: Cavalleria Rusticana

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Episode Synopsis

Beloved by opera audiences around the world, Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana is an impassioned story of tormented love wrapped in music of fervent vibrancy. Riccardo Muti, whose command of 19th-century Italian opera is “virtually without peer” (Bachtrack), leads concert performances of the complete one-act opera with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and an international cast.