CAVALLERIA / SUOR ANGELICA

CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA
Opera in One Act
Music by Pietro Mascagni
Libretto by Giovanni Torgioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci.

Easter day in a small Village of Sicily. Turiddu, a young villager, had returned from military service to find that while he was gone, his fiancée, Lola, had married Alfio, the prosperous village teamster. In revenge, Turiddu seduced Santuzza, a young girl in the village. As the opera begins, Lola, overcome by her jealousy of Santuzza, has begun an adulterous affair with Turiddu. Alfio learns from betrayed Santuzza about his wife’s passionate relation swearing vengeance. A typical knife duel is set where Turiddu is killed by Alfio before the consternation of the villagers.

SUOR ANGELICA
Opera in One Act
Music by Giacomo Puccini
Libretto by Giovacchino Forzano

The story of a noun who lives for seven years in a convent banished by her family for having had a child out of matrimony. One day her Princess-Aunt, a stern, imperious aristocrat who has come to discuss matters of inheritance with her niece. Angelica was informed that her child died of a dread disease two years before. The Princess leaves, and Angelica, seized by great anguish, prepares a poisonous drink from some herbs and drinks it. Suddenly realizing that the sin of suicide has damned her, she begs the Madonna to save her, and the miracle does occur, while all the other sisters are gathered around: the Madonna appears, leading a little blond child all dressed in white, Angelica’s child, who will lead her to Paradise.
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