Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast season continues with a live broadcast of the popular verismo double bill of Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, led by Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi. Cavalleria Rusticana stars Violeta Urmana as Santuzza, opposite Yonghoon Lee, who adds a new role to his Met repertory as the faithless Turiddu, with Ambrogio Maestri as Alfio, the wronged husband. In Pagliacci, Barbara Frittoli is the adulterous Nedda, Marco Berti is her jealous husband Canio, and George Gagnidze reprises the role of Tonio.
Listen LIVE on Classical IPR on Saturday, February 6 at 1pm ET.
LIBRETTO
For Cavalleria Rusticana - in English and Italian, side-by-side:
http://www.murashev.com/opera/Cavalleria_rusticana_libretto_English_Italian
Pagliacci - in English and Italian, scanned book, full libretto:
https://archive.org/details/pagliaccipunchin1910leon