The Advocate

If you don't know the name, you will know the music when Opera Louisiane stages 'Pagliacci'

Paul Groves was a child when he first heard that classic, mournful tenor aria usually sung by a clown on opera stages. The song — specifically one of its passages — is usually recognized even by those ...
Chicago Tribune

Review: Lyric’s ‘Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci’ is an old-school opera double bill

Pietro Mascagni’s “Cavalleria rusticana” might have been a one-hit wonder for its composer but it was Satchmo’s favorite opera. In the mid-1920s, Louis Armstrong would pop out of the pit at the ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Tenor bringing his signature role to San Diego Opera’s ‘Pagliacci’

When it comes to challenging operatic roles for tenors, the clown troupe leader Canio in Leoncavallo Ruggero’s beloved 1892 “Pagliacci” is right up there. It requires power-singing, vocal range and ...
BroadwayWorld

Photos: CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA and PAGLIACCI at the Lyric Opera of Chicago

In these iconic works — known together as Cav/Pag — ordinary lives are pushed to the brink, erupting in two of opera’s most unforgettable finales. Music Director Enrique Mazzola conducts this operatic ...
Times Argus

Opera Vermont’s ‘Pagliacci’: Unique collaboration of opera and circus

Opera Vermont will present “Pagliacci,” Collier’s adaptation of Leoncavallo’s “I Pagliacci” with music from Mascagni’s “Cavalleria Rusticana,” at 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Feb. 21 and 22, at the ...