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Stage director

Liliana Cavani

Costume designer

Gabriella Pescucci

Chorus master

Vladimir Stolpovskikh

Set designer

Dante Ferretti

Lighting designer

Gianni Mantovanini

Alexey Dmitriev

Sergey Tsyplenkov

Singer

Tenor

Dmitrij Golovnin

Turiddu

Soprano

Olesya Petrova

Santuzza

Baritone

Alexander Kuznetsov

Alfio

Mezzo-soprano

Victoria Voytenkova

Lola

Contralto

Irina Mikhailova

Lucia

Mikhailovsky Theatre

Cavalleria rusticana -  (Rustic Chivalry)

Saint Petersburg

Russia

Mikhailovsky Theater

Cavalleria rusticana Mascagni

Public

Rustic Chivalry

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Ildiko Komlósi as Santuzza / Ildikó Komlósi stars in Cavalleria rusticana

A disciple of Luchino Visconti, the world-famous cinema director, the creator of The Night Porter , Liliana Cavani has directed many opera stage productions. The famous Ravenna music festival saw her productions of Cavalleria rusticana by Pietro Mascagni (1996) and Pagliacci (1998) by Ruggiero Leoncavallo. Cavani’s attention to Mascagni and Leoncavallo could be explained by her interest in verismo — a style in Italian opera that started in 1890. The ultimate simplicity of the subjects taken by the verists from the ordinary life are typical for that kind of the operas. Ordinary life never lacks tragedies. The intense plot jammed into one action — premonition of a catastrophe and bloody payoff — couldn’t fail to attract Liliana Cavani. “Cinema is a sort of psychoanalysis for me”, the director says. Opera productions are psychoanalytical too. In her production of Cavalleria rusticana Liliana Cavani doesn’t confine herself to a sentimental story of a love triangle, she involves the audience into the production, makes them witnesses and accomplices of love, betrayal, murder.

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