CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA + PAGLIACCI Domingo (DVD)

Tenor superstar Placido Domingo performs the rare feat of singing the lead roles in both Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci in a single evening, in this 1976 live performance from Japan. In the former, Domingo is partnered by the magnificent mezzo-soprano Fiorenza Cossotto; he is joined in Pagliacci by soprano Elena Mauti-Nunziata as Nedda and Benito di Bella as Tonio.
NB: Embedded Japanese subtitles remain on screen throughout, with the option to view additional subtitles in English, French, German, Italian or Spanish.
Color, 158 minutes, 4:3, All regions

CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA
Opera in One Act
Music by Pietro Mascagni
Libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti & Guido Menasci,
after the novella by Giovanni Verga

Cast:
Santuzza - Fiorenza Cossotto
Turiddu - Plácido Domingo
Alfio - Attilio d’Orazi
Mamma Lucia - Nella Verri
Lola - Gabriella Novielli

PAGLIACCI
Opera in Two Acts
Music and Libretto by Ruggero Leoncavallo

Cast:
Canio - Plácido Domingo
Nedda - Elena Mauti-Nunziata
Tonio - Benito di Bella
Silvio - Lorenzo Saccomani
Beppe - Piero De Palma
Villagers - Paolo Mazzotta, Pietro di Vietri

NHK Symphony Orchestra
Union of Japan Professional Choruses
Hibari Children’s Chorus
Oliviero de Fabritiis, conductor
Antonello Madau Díaz, stage director
(September 5, 1976, NHK Hall, Tokyo)