Opera’s most enduring tragic double bill returns in an evocative production by Sir David McVicar, who sets the action across two time periods but in the same Sicilian village. Marcelo Álvarez rises to the challenge of playing the dual tenor roles of Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana and Canio in Pagliacci. Sopranos Eva-Maria Westbroek (Cavalleria Rusticana) and Patricia Racette (Pagliacci) sing the unlucky heroines in these two verismo staples.
Captured live during The Met: Live in HD on 25.04.2015.
The opera is sung in Italian with English subtitles.
Distributor:
The Metropolitan Opera
Director:
David McVicar
