L’amico Fritz (1891) is the second opera of composer Pietro Mascagni. He had burst onto the operatic scene the year before with Cavalleria rusticana, the one-act opera which many consider to be the ...

The drama of love and longing often can only be conveyed through the extravagance of opera, and the University of Iowa’s production of “L’amico Fritz” by Pietro Mascagni brought the lives of ...

Beppe/Cupid (Kezia Bienek) and a tentative Fritz (Matteo Lippi) in Act Two of Mascagni's opera More of a surprise was the utterly idiomatic style of the City of London Sinfonia under Beatrice Venezi, ...

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The University of Arizona Opera Theater is set to perform the “”chick opera”” production of Pietro Mascagni’s “”L’Amico Fritz,”” said theater director Charles Roe, who considers the show to be the ...

In 1890, Italian composer Pietro Mascagni turned the opera world on its head with Cavalleria Rusticana, a one-act opera so violently frenetic and emotionally overstated that critics had to develop a ...

“My, how I’ve missed the gladdening sight and pulse-quickening sound of a major American musical done to perfection,” said Dominic Cavendish in The Daily Telegraph. Daniel Evans’s “enchanting” and ...