CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA
Pietro Mascagni (1863 - 1945)
Opera in one act in Italian
Libretto: G. Menasci and G. Targioni-Tozzetti based on a story of G. VergaPremièr at Teatro Castonzi, Roma – 17 May 1890
23 February 1961 (4 Performances)
Teatro Massimo, Palermo
Conductor: Napoleone Annovazzi
Chorus
master: n/a
Stage
director: Carlo Piccinato
Scene and costumes: Gino Morici
Turiddu a young soldier GASTONE
LIMARILLI tenor
Alfio the village teamster PIERO GUELFI baritone
Lola his wife GABRIELA CARTURAN mezzo-soprano
Mamma Lucia Turiddu’s mother MARIA CANNIZZARO contralto
Santuzza a village girl LEYLA GENCER (?) / GIGLIOLA FRAZZONI soprano
Time: The
present, on Easter day
Place: A
village in Sicily
IL TABARRO
Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924)
Opera one act in Italian
Libretto: G. Adami after the play by Didier Gold
Premièr at Metropolitan Opera, New Yok – 14 December 1918
23 February 1961 (4 Performances)
Teatro Massimo, Palermo
Conductor: Napoleone Annovazzi
Chorus master: n/a
Stage director: n/a
Scene and costumes: n/a
Michele, owner of a barge, aged fifty PIERO GUELFI baritone
Michele, owner of a barge, aged fifty PIERO GUELFI baritone
Luigi, a stevedore, aged twenty ANTONIO GALIE tenore
“Tinca”, a stevedore, aged thirty-five MARIO CARLIN tenore
“Talpa”, a stevedore, aged fifty-five ENRICO CAMPI bass
Giorgetta, Michele’s wife, aged twenty-five ELVIRA GALESSI soprano
Frugola, Talpa’s wife, aged fifty GABRIELA CARTURAN mezzo-soprano
Time: Early Twentieth Century
Place: The Seine, Paris
Note: According
to Opera Magazine, Gencer announced as Santuzza to perform in Cavalleria but in
the book of "Il Teatro Massimo" (Edizioni Priulla 1980) her name
replaced by Gigliola Frazzoni. (Below)
OPERA MAGAZINE
1961 January
