| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 7-Jun-2013 Holland Park Theatre | A game of two halves: Cav and Pag at Opera Holland Park |
 As I left Holland Park after last night’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, I found myself wondering what they’d put in the orchestra’s cups of tea at the interval. Or, perhaps, what was it that conductor Stuart Stratford said to them. Because I don’t think I’ve ever seen an opera performance that was (to borrow a phrase from football) such a game of two halves: a lacklustre Cavalleria followed by a thoroughly entertaining Pagliacci.
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| 2-Mar-2013 Oslo Opera House, Main Stage | Easter in Italy: Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci at the Norwegian National Opera |
 Nothing says “Happy Easter” like a bit of alcohol-fuelled murder on the church steps, right? With their new double bill of Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, the Norwegian National Opera certainly seems to think so!
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| 5-Jan-2013 City Hall Concert Hall | New Year double bill in Hong Kong: Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci |
 120 years after the Metropolitan Opera in New York paired Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci in a single performance, the tradition of staging these representative works of verismo opera in a double bill continued this weekend with a production under the direction of Lo Kingman, Hong Kong’s home-grown doyen of opera.
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| 6-May-2012 Opéra Bastille | Rustic chivalry and clowns in Paris: Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci |
 In each case, you know the murder is coming. In each case the music is explosive and closes the opera: there is nothing left to say except Canio's simple words: "La commedia è finita." Thus ends opera's most celebrated double bill: Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, a pair of short operas that have been performed together almost exclusively since 1893, known affectionately as "Cav and Pag" to an older generation of operagoers.
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