Cavalleria rusticana: opera in one act, with a libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci. Premiered in Rome at the Teatro Costanzi on May 17, 1890 / Pagliacci: opera in two acts, with a libretto by Ruggero Leoncavallo. Premiered in Milan at the Teatro dal Verme on May 21, 1892.

Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci

Opéra Berlioz

Hatred, jealousy and loss: Sergei Rachmaninoff creates a dark world with powerful colours in his one-act opera Francesca da Rimini. Against this backdrop, the heroine’s brief happiness in love shines all the more brightly. Kirill Petrenko presents the impassioned score with acclaimed soloists in a concert performance. Sofia Gubaidulina’s work The Wrath of God is almost apocalyptically dramatic. And here, too, it is about the hatred that – says the composer – “grows in this world with such force and intensity that it inevitably touches me.” The programme opens with one of the most popular works of American orchestral music: Samuel Barber’s touching and intimate Adagio for strings.

Galina Cheplakova

Events

Past events

Oct 3, 2025

Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci · Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier

16 - 18 Jan, 2025

Kirill Petrenko with Rachmaninoff’s “Francesca da Rimini” · Berliner Philharmoniker

Future and recently performed repertoire

Nedda in Pagliacci by Leoncavallo

Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier

Francesca in Francesca da Rimini by Rachmaninoff

Berliner Philharmoniker

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