From the staging to the set and lighting design to the high-stakes performances by the singers, the show turns up its ...

Life and art are invariably intertwined, but seldom as closely as in the opera “Pagliacci” (Clowns). Ruggero Leoncavallo’s opera about fatal jealousies in a traveling troupe of actors was based on a ...

When it comes to challenging operatic roles for tenors, the clown troupe leader Canio in Leoncavallo Ruggero’s beloved 1892 “Pagliacci” is right up there. It requires power-singing, vocal range and ...

Emanuele Andrizzi with a cast of more than 50 performers and a 40-piece orchestra. Performances are Friday, June 27 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, June 29 at 2 p.m. at the George Van Dusen Theatre. The 2025 ...

The Opera Festival of Chicago will present two pre-show talks featuring WFMT Music Director and host of “Listening to Singers” Oliver Camacho. The two, free special events are being held, Friday, June ...

San Diego Opera kicked off its 2025-26 season on Halloween night, where many audience members at the San Diego Civic Theatre showed up in costume, and horror movie-style drama unfolded onstage in ...

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Portland Opera's double bill of Ruggero Leoncavallo's "Pagliacci" and Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" is the company's greatest hit, its most successful production to date: It's been taken up a ...

The dancers delivered a stunning performance as acrobats and clowns, including a jack-in-the-box that nearly reached the celling. The Sunday evening premiere of Pagliacci at the Israeli Opera, with ...

Ask the average Seattleite what they think of when they hear the word pagliacci and they’re almost guaranteed to answer “pizza”—or, maybe, “class action lawsuit.” One hundred years ago, though, the ...

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