Moving, heart-wrenching and intense. Anita Rachvelishvili was all that and more...

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Moving, heart-wrenching and intense. Anita Rachvelishvili was all that and more Thursday evening in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s concert realization of Pietro Mascagni’s one-act opera, “Cavalleria Rusticana (Rustic Chivalry).”

The Georgian-born mezzo-soprano squeezed meaning and feeling out of every bar, every note, delivering a riveting performance — one that went far in explaining why she is fast becoming one of the opera world’s biggest stars.

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