Pietro Mascagni
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Pietro Mascagni was an Italian composer primarily known for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece Cavalleria rusticana caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and single-handedly ushered in
Mascagni in 1902
Mascagni in c. 1890
Amica poster, 1905, showing Geraldine Farrar who performed the title role in the Monte Carlo premiere.
Mascagni caricatured in Vanity Fair, 1912
Cavalleria rusticana
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Cavalleria rusticana is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from an 1880 short story of the same name and subsequent
Scene from the world premiere of the opera
Mascagni (center) with his librettists, Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti (left) and Guido Menasci
Russian edition of the Cavalleria rusticana script (1896)
Gemma Bellincioni as Santuzza, and her husband, Roberto Stagno, as Turiddu, in the 1890 premiere of Cavalleria rusticana