This opera's intermezzo plays when Michael Corleone screams while clutching his daughterMary's dead body in The Godfather, Part Three.
This opera's intermezzo plays when Michael Corleone screams while clutching his daughterMary's dead body in The Godfather, Part Three. In its first scene, a church choir sings the Easterhymn Regina Coeli before a woman outside the church describes how she was seduced in the aria"Voi lo sapete." It made its composer instantly famous after it won Edoardo Sonzogno's (*) one-actopera competition in 1890. Often performed on a double bill with Pagliacci, this opera ends withSantuzza's lover Turiddu being killed in a duel by Alfio. Based on a short story by Giovanni Verga, for 10points, name this verismo opera by Pietro Mascagni.
This opera's intermezzo plays when Michael Corleone screams while clutching his daughterMary's dead body in The Godfather, Part Three.
Cavalleria Rusticana [or Rustic Chivalry]