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Soprano

Violeta Urmana

Santuzza

Liudmyla Monastyrska

Tenor

Yonghoon Lee

Turiddu

Ricardo Tamura

Contralto

Jane Bunnell

Lucia

Jane Shaulis

Baritone

Ambrogio Maestri

Alfio

Mezzo-soprano

Ginger Costa-Jackson

Lola

Conductor

Fabio Luisi

Stage director

David McVicar

Set designer

Rae Smith

Costume designer

Moritz Junge

Lighting designer

Paule Constable

Choreographer

Andrew George

Barbara Frittoli

Nedda

Roberto Alagna

Canio

Marco Berti

George Gagnidze

Tonio

Tony Stevenson

Peppe

Andrew Bidlack

Alexey Lavrov

Silvio

Rodion Pogossov

The Metropolitan Opera

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Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

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Cavalleria rusticana -  (Rustic Chivalry)

New York City

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Metropolitan Opera House

Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi leads this immortal double-bill of one-act operas that teem with love, jealousy, despair, and murder. Violeta Urmana is Santuzza in Cavalleria—pregnant and abandoned by the handsome and popular Turiddu (Yonghoon Lee). But their illicit dalliance is discovered by Santuzza’s husband, Alfio (Ambrogio Maestri), who challenges Turiddu to a duel, and kills him. Marco Berti is Canio, the iconic clown in Pagliacci who must entertain the audience while his heart is breaking. Barbara Frittoli is his wife, Nedda, who plans to flee with her young lover, Silvio (Alexey Lavrov), after the performance. But when the action on stage too closely mirrors real life, Canio erupts and murders them both. George Gagnidze plays Tonio, a spurned suitor of Nedda’s who gets his revenge by telling Canio of his wife’s unfaithfulness.

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