Pietro Mascagni - Cavalleria Rusticana & Ruggero Leoncavallo - Pagliacci (2007) [Full Blu-ray]

This stage opus by Giancarlo del Monaco combines two separate and ostensibly unrelated operas - Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana and Ruggero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci - into a single production, by virtue of their shared verismo style. Jesús López-Cobos directs for the stage; Violeta Urmana, Dragana Jugovic and Marco di Felice co-star in the Cavalleria portion, while Vladimir Galouzine, Maria Bayo and Carlo Guelfi co-star in the Pagliacci segments. The Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real, under the leadership of musical director Jesús López-Cobos, provides musical accompaniment. Nathan Southern.

Pietro Mascagni
CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA

Santuzza – Violeta Urmana
Turiddu – Vincenzo La Scola
Lola – Dragana Jugovic
Mamma Lucia – Viorica Cortez
Alfio – Marco di Felice



Ruggero Leoncavallo
PAGLIACCI

Canio – Vladimir Galouzine
Nedda – María Bayo
Tonio – Carlo Guelfi
Beppe – Antonio Gandía
Silvio – Ángel Ódena

Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real, Madrid
Jesús López Cobos, conductor

Giancarlo del Monaco, stage director

Recorded live at the Teatro Real, Madrid, in February and March 2007.

Bonus:
- Interviews with Giancarlo del Monaco, Jesús López Cobos, Violeta Urmana, Vincenzo La Scola, Vladimir Galouzine and María Bayo.
- Cast gallery.

Production: Opus Arte
Runtime: 2:30:00
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: LPCM
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 25001 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: Italian LPCM 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Audio#2: Italian LPCM 5.0 / 48 kHz / 5760 kbps / 24-bit
Subtitles: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian