FULL Cavalleria Rusticana (Monleone) Tokyo 2024 Toshiaki Murakami, Shoko Fukuda, Koji Terada
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Cavalleria rusticana Composer: Libretto:
- Composer: Monleone Domenico
- Libretto: Giovanni Verga Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Nihonbashi Opera Tokyo, Japan
- Recorded: May 5, 2024
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Toshiaki Murakami, Shoko Fukuda, Koji Terada, Mari Iwabuchi, Miki Morii
- Conductor: Osamu Sasaki
- Orchestra: Ayatoshi Oikawa, PIANO
- Stage Director: Shoko Fukuda
- Costume Designer: Tessy
- Lighting Designer: Furuspec Co., Ltd.
Information about the Recording
- Published by: ShokoFukuda
- Date Published: 2024
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
- Subtitles: yessubs, itsubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Domenico Monleone (January 4, 1875 – 15 January 1942) was an Italian composer of operas, most noted for his opera Cavalleria rusticana of 1907, which for a while rivalled the success of Mascagni’s work of the same name which was from the same source. The work was the third opera to be based on Verga’s 1884 theatrical adaptation of his own short story, Cavalleria rusticana, Stanislao Gastaldon’s Mala Pasqua (1888) being the first, and Mascagni’s famous opera (1890) being the second. Mascagni and his lawyers intervened and Monleone changed the opera ‘beyond recognition’ setting the music to a new libretto. In this form it was presented as La giostra dei falchi in 1914.
There have been recent revivals of Monleone’s original Cavalleria rusticana in Tirana (Albania) and (more successfully) in Montpellier (France) in 2001. Also in Albania there has been (1998) a revival (radio concert) of Il mistero conducted by Daniel Pacitti which has been released on CD.