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PAGLIACCI

with CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA

PIETRO MASCAGNI & RUGGERO LEONCAVALLO

September 10, 12, 14, 17, 2011

8:00PM 
National Arts Centre
Southam Hall

 

Pagliacci

The show must go on. Or so the famed clown Canio believes. But when a fellow member of the travelling troupe offers a helping hand to Canio’s wife, he is overcome by jealousy and begins to unravel. By the fall of the final curtain, the bloodthirsty clown will show them all that the comedy is truly over.

Starring:

Canio -  Richard Leech
Nedda -  Yannick-Muriel Noah
Tonio -  Gaétan Laperrière
Beppe -  Antonio Figueroa
Silvio -  Jonathan Estabrooks **
 
** Tune into Jonathan Estabrooks' behind the scene's video blog - A Singer's Life
 

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Cavalleria rusticana

Easter morning in a Sicilian village. A young soldier returns home to find that his fiancée has married another man. Furious, he will stop at nothing to settle the score—even if it means using an innocent village girl as his instrument of revenge. But this village girl may not be as innocent as she seems.

Starring:

Santuzza - Lisa Daltirus
Turiddu - Richard Crawley
Alfio - Gaétan Laperrière
Lola - Wallis Giunta*
Mamma Lucia - Emilia Boteva

* Wallis Giunta appears with the cooperation of The Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Development Program.

Cav/Pag Production

Conductor:
Richard Buckley
 
Stage Director:
Michael Cavanagh
 
Lighting Director: 
Harry Frehner
 

 


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