{"id":92422,"date":"2026-10-12T22:50:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T14:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=92422"},"modified":"2026-10-12T22:50:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T14:50:20","slug":"review-opera-hong-kongs-cavalleria-rusticana-and-pagliacci-double-bill-lights-up-the-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=92422","title":{"rendered":"Review | Opera Hong Kong\u2019s Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci double bill lights up the stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/10\/12\/91b06662-6fdf-48b5-bc3e-c64fcd175ba9_e314a44a.jpg?itok=M8ejHx5e&amp;v=1791799964\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Opera Hong Kong\u2019s first fully staged production of Pietro Mascagni\u2019s 1890 <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Cavalleria Rusticana<\/em> and Ruggero Leoncavallo\u2019s 1892 <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Pagliacci<\/em> does justice to the classic double bill.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Familiarly known as <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Cav\/Pag<\/em>, the production features lively staging, strong performances in the leading roles and splendid work by the Opera Hong Kong Chorus.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Since 1893, the two operas have often been performed together for obvious reasons. Both are set in the rural Italian south and both explore themes of jealousy, betrayal and revenge that culminate in violent death.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">They are also outstanding examples of the <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">verismo<\/em> school of opera: gritty, realistic stories about ordinary people, abandoning traditional recitative for sung dialogue, and stripping ornamentation from the singing to focus on melody and the direct expression of emotion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/arts\/article\/3370537\/opera-hong-kongs-cavalleria-rusticana-and-pagliacci-double-bill-lights-stage?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opera Hong Kong\u2019s first fully staged production of Pietro Mascagni\u2019s 1890 Cavalleria Rusticana and Ruggero Leoncavallo\u2019s 1892 Pagliacci does justice to the classic double bill&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[6343,31538,4171,3569,5010,3782,9497,31540,28,31539,3329],"class_list":["post-92422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-bill","tag-cavalleria","tag-double","tag-hong","tag-kongs","tag-lights","tag-opera","tag-pagliacci","tag-review","tag-rusticana","tag-stage","wpcat-33-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}