Deutsche Oper Berlin: Cavalleria rusticana

It can be reassuring to know that the tears shed on stage are false, that the feelings are only played and the pain is not really suffered by the performers. But reassurance is not the thing of the young Italian composers on the threshold of the 20th century, on the contrary: they wanted to shake up the audience, draw them into the whirlpool of emotions, take them by surprise with the comic and tragic twists that take their stories copied from life.

In the literary movement of 'verismo' [derived from 'il vero' - the truth] they found their concern preformed, and it is only logical that Pietro Mascagni chose a novel by its main representative Giovanni Verga as the model for his first work. Cavalleria rusticana [the German title is: Sicilian peasant honor] had already proved its stage suitability in a dramatization that was also shown in Mascagni's hometown of Livorno. In 1880 the story was published in the collection Vita dei campi, which actually means Living in the countryside, but due to the origin of the author in the German translation it is mostly called Sicilian village stories.

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In Italian language with German and English surtitles
3 hours / A break
Introduction: 45 minutes before the start of the performance in the rank foyer on the right


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