‘Pagliacci’ gets a new partner
For decades, Leoncavallo’s searing one-act tragedy “Pagliacci” has traditionally been packaged with Mascagni’s “Cavalleria rusticana,” a work of considerably less imagination and subtlety.
In San Jose, the Lyric Theatre has made the madcap decision to yoke “Pagliacci” with Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Trial by Jury.”
[...] Festival Opera, the estimable Walnut Creek company, is staging the piece in tandem with Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s dark morality tale “The Seven Deadly Sins.”