Â Winning in a competition of over 70 entries, it opens with one character singing of his love for Lola, who married another man while he was in the military.
It's not Carmen, but one character in this opera brags about his profession in the aria "Il cavallo scalpita"; that character later has his ear bitten by a man whom he challenged to a duel. Â Winning in a competition of over 70 entries, it opens with one character singing of his love for Lola, who married another man while he was in the military. A hymn Â based on the melody of the Regina coeli precedes the brindisi "Viva il vino spumeggiante" in this opera, which also sees a woman tell Lucia of her son's adulterous activities in the aria (*) "Vio la sapete." That aria's singer, Santuazza, does not want to go to the Easter Sunday mass in part because Lola is there with Santuazza's love Turiddu, who dies in a duel with Alfio at this opera's end. Often performed along with Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, this is, for 10 points, what verismo opera by Pietro Mascagni?
It's not Carmen, but one character in this opera brags about his profession in the aria "Il cavallo scalpita"; that character later has his ear bitten by a man whom he challenged to a duel.
Cavalleria rusticana or Rustic Chivalry