Mascagni/ Voulgaridou/ Pagliai - Cavalleria RusticanaMascagni's first and most successful work has become an opera classic as it features elements of the Greek tragedy, mixing up religious and archaic elements. It's a story of love, passion, jealousy and restored honor in bloodshed. Directors Di Gangi and Giacomazzi set this traditional Cavalleria in a Sicilian village of the 1940s where the buildings are rather bare and the piazza is the stage for private as well as public drama. Conductor Valerio

Guest stars include Samantha Bond

published in London around 1770/1775

Drive By IslandA2

a small mountain village in the Sicilian hinterland that was the birthplace of the story's playwright

which was mixed to tape by engineer Mike Kriebel

making this an album for like-minded globetrotters

using Janácek's sketches

told primarily through song

Creep Show

Janitsch's position as double bass player was transferred to the newly founded Berlin Court Orchestra

the tenor Michael Spyres

Operetta started as a form of theatre and genre of light opera