Some films are legends: Gone with the Wind, A Clockwork Orange, Apocalypse Now, Mutiny on the Bounty, Rocky, The Lord of the Rings.
In the world of opera, some pieces grew so famous that are known to everybody—even those who never set foot in an opera house: Verdi’s Aida and Traviata, Puccini’s Tosca, the aria Nessun dorma in Turandot, and certainly Pietro Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana every since its premiere in Rome in 1890. The story is a bare, violent telling of primordial, archaic forces: hate, possession, love, oppression, honour, death, tragedy. Cavalleria rusticana will run at Fenice Theatre from August 25.
