Talk:Cavalleria rusticana

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verismo?

Is this opera considered a verismo style opera? Xlegiofalco 21:33, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The archtype;) AdamChapman 19:54, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Synopsis

I have rewritten the synopsis. The previous one was quite garbled in places, and not always in complete sentences. Large chunks of it appear to have been taken verbatim from the 1921 edition of The Opera Goer's Complete Guide by Leo Melitz (in a distinctly non-idiomatic translation by Richard Salinger). Voceditenore 22:15, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Trivia

I have already incorporated some of the items in the former 'Trivia' section of the article into the article itself. Below are those 'Trivia' items which I removed from the article as per WP:Trivia but which may still be useful, either in a future section on films made from the opera or in a discussion of the opera's use as a stereotype of Italian culture.

A performance of the opera is used as the backdrop for the closing scenes of the film The Godfather Part III and the famous Intermezzo is featured on the soundtrack of the film. The film actually shows segments from the opera out of chronological order, with Turiddu's drinking song coming before Alfio's Aria
Also heard briefly in the film Avanti!
"Intermezzo" is used in episode 85, "The Blue Comet," of the HBO series The Sopranos.

Voceditenore 22:52, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"The opera has been made into film in a number of different versions, including one by Franco Zeffirelli (1982), with Yelena Obraztsova and Plácido Domingo" has now been incorporated into the article's text. Voceditenore 15:08, 8 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The complete list of all the original trivia items is here Voceditenore 13:43, 8 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Pregnant?

The article says Santuzza is pregnant. I know some productions show her that way, but is it really specified in the libretto? CharlesTheBold 00:49, 27 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Good question. The libretto (at least the one linked to in the article) specifies very little background information. However the majority of synopses state that she is. Verga's original short story is very terse and gives little information about the characters - it's largely dialogue. It doesn't even mention that she's been excommunicated. However, Verga later expanded the story into a play of the same name, which premiered in Turin in 1884. Possibly there's something in the play about it? It seems so from what little I could see from this:

John W. Klein. 'Pietro Mascagni and Giovanni Verga', Music & Letters, Vol. 44, No. 4 (Oct., 1963), pp. 350-357

But I don't have online access to the journal. Voceditenore 10:04, 27 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Setting for Cavalleria rusticana

In the following wiki article Vizzini it mentions:

The writer Giovanni Verga used Vizzini as the setting for his Cavalleria Rusticana and Mastro Don Gesualdo, describing places and scenes that are still recognizable (the prickly pears of Cunziria, and in a sloping alley the house of the Trao family).

Is this true?

Gioto (talk) 00:54, 26 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Film versions

An anonymous editor added the following back in April (since edited for spelling, use of English etc.):

The 1968 film directed by Åke Falck, with Fiorenza Cossotto as Santuzza, Gianfranco Cecchele as Turiddu, Giangiacomo Guelfi as Alfio and Anna di Stasio as Lucia. (La Scala, Milan conducted by Herbert Von Karajan.)

I don't think this is a true cinematic version filmed on sets, just a televised/filmed version of a stage performance at La Scala. If the latter, it doesn't belong in that section and should be removed. Voceditenore (talk) 09:29, 4 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Performance History

The first sentence in the performance history doesn't make any sense:

"Cavalleria rusticana was the first opera that Mascagni wrote (although Pinotta only premiered in 1932 was written earlier) and remains the most well known of his 16 operas."