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).”
Read MoreMaestro Riccardo Muti expressed his admiration for the Georgian mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili, who will sing the very demanding role of Santuzza in "Cavalleria Rusticana" with CSY under the baton of Riccardo Muti.
Read MoreBeloved by opera audiences around the world, Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana is an impassioned story of tormented love wrapped in music of fervent vibrancy. Riccardo Muti, whose command of 19th-century Italian opera is “virtually without peer” (Bachtrack), leads concert performances of the complete one-act opera with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and an international cast.
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