Word: pagliacci
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...busy week at the opera, too. Among other things, the Met offered a new twin-bill production of Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci. Not everybody was satisfied with the way Rudolf Bing & Co. went about streamlining the old favorites (see below), but the singing was good...
...French chef who in serving a New England boiled dinner had carved the beets like roses and turned turnips into lilies . . ." The critics' ire and ulcers were aroused last week by the Met's new streamlined production of Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, the wonderful old pair of operatic favorites...
...people have been provoked by two masterpieces of madness that are known by connoisseurs of Marx Brothers' comedy as "the Animal Bill." They have been shown together for the past year, and there is every reason to believe that this may become a tradition, like the "Cavalleria Rusticana" and "Pagliacci" double bill of grand opera...
...nights when the Metropolitan Opera's Ferruccio Tagliavini sang Tosca and Lucia di Lammermoor, there were few empty seats; fans gladly paid double prices to hear once-barred (for alleged collaboration) Tenor Beniamino Gigli sing the operatic twins "Cav" and "Pag" (Cavalleria Rusticana and I Pagliacci) with popular Soprano Maria Caniglia and Baritone Tito Gobbi. Even 60-year-old Tenor Tito Schipa was on hand...
Italo Tajo had sung Don Basilio only two days after arriving in the U.S., and after only one rehearsal. But he has been working up to it since he was 13. It was then that he heard Pagliacci in Milan. Before long, he was reading librettos behind his schoolbooks. His schoolwork suffered ("I was stupido"), but Tajo didn't care...