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Cavelleria rusticana & Pagliacci

Composers: Pietro Mascagni (Cavalleria rusticana) / Ruggiero Leoncavallo (I Pagliacci)

Librettists: G Targioni & G Menasci, after Giovanni Verga's play (Cavalleria rusticana) / Ruggiero Leoncavallo (I Pagliacci)


Director: Elijah Moshinsky

Designer: Michael Yeargan

Lighting Designer: Howard Harrison


Production originated: 1996

Date of last performance: 2005

Chorus: 14 sopranos, 13 mezzos, 13 tenors, 14 basses

Actors / dancers: 6 actors (2 with circus skills)

Children: 6 boys, 4 girls

On stage musicians: 1 oboe, 1 harp (Cav), 1 trumpet (Pag)

Special effects: Fire clubs, Cigarette lighters

Edition: Sonzogno (vocal), Boosey & Hawkes (orchestral - Cav), Kalmus (orchestral - Pag)

No of containers: 4