Leoncavallo News

Pagliacci/Suor Angelica : By Ruggero Leoncavallo/Giacomo Puccini. Conducted by Andrew Bisantz.

Tenor Michael Hayes as Canio in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci . Who needs reality TV when you have opera? Opera Columbus dared to ask that question last night with its production of Pagliacci at the Ohio Theatre.

Love affairs and unrequited love; jealousy, anger and, ultimately, two murders -- now that is opera.

The College of Eastern Utah Chamber Choir will present the Schubert Mass in G on Saturday, Oct.

The granddaddy of all stories about clowns who laugh on the inside while crying on the outside, Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci presents a case of life imitating art too closely.

There's nothing sexier than a woman with a whip. That seems to be what Silvio is thinking as he approaches Nedda, his love interest.

Verdi's universally loved La Traviata returns to Seattle Opera for the first time in 13 years as the company presents nine performances, with two casts, through Oct.

The Northeastern State University College of Liberal Arts and the department of music presents "A Grand Night for Singing: The Best of Opera and Broadway" on Oct.

Tuesday, September 15, 2009 - An artistic life. Painters, poets, philosophers, garrets in Paris.

Metropolitan Opera leading tenor Eduardo Villa will sing in Lyric Opera Northwest's second offering in their 2009 season with Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci in a classic double-bill. Known colloquially as a oeCav-and-Paga , these two short, operas are traditionally performed together as a staple of the dramatic Italian repertoire.

Eduardo Villa, a leading Metropolitan Opera tenor, will reprise his roles as Canio in Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci" and Turridu in Mascagni'sA "Cavalleria rusticana" thisA weekend at Meydenbauer Theater for Lyric OperaA Northwest.A He will be joined in "Pagliacci" byA West Seattle baritone Craig H. Nim who will sing the role ofA TonioA this weekend atA ...

The Merola Opera program wrapped up its twelve-week summer training program with a grand finale concert featuring its 24 graduates in scenes and arias from all over the repertory.

The City of Sarasota extended the deadline and broadened the residency requirement for a Call to Artists for unique sidewalk inlays for the Downtown Sarasota Historic District.

Some artistic genres are more ethereal than others. Painters leave behind paintings.

Some artistic genres are more ethereal than others. Painters leave behind paintings.

Mark Jacoby and Charis Leos are two of the characters in "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," which runs through Aug.

As with Shakespeare, opera is not something most people would associate with the Ozarks.

The Ellen Eccles Theatre will be filled with passion, adventure, love and loss this summer.

Sarasota Opera has announced its 2009-10 season which includes the continuation of the company's internationally acclaimed Verdi Cycle with a rare mounting of his early success Giovanna d'Arco. Given the overwhelming success of its first Fall Season in 2008, the company will expand to present six performances of Verdi's beloved La traviata with the ...

Samuel Ramey is the murderous Bluebeard and Denyce Graves plays his unfortunate bride, in Bartok's thriller Bluebeard's Castle , at the Washington National Opera.