Pietro Mascagni – Past Concerts

Malta Philharmonic Orchestra features a star-studded lineup of vocal soloists (Diana Damrau, Nicolas Testé, & others) for this audio-visual production of vocal & symphonic selections from opera & musical theater.

Starring Tatiana Troyanos, Jean Kraft, Plácido Domingo, & Vern Shinall; Teresa Stratas, Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes, & Allan Monk, conducted by James Levine. Production by Franco Zeffirelli. From April 5, 1978.

Join PSCO each weekday at 7pm for unforgettable moments from opera & oratorio. Today's performance features the Intermezzo from Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana.

Starring Eva-Maria Westbroek, Marcelo Álvarez, and George Gagnidze; Patricia Racette, Marcelo Álvarez, George Gagnidze, and Lucas Meachem, conducted by Fabio Luisi. Production by Sir David McVicar. From April 25, 2015.

Starring Tatiana Troyanos, Jean Kraft, Plácido Domingo, and Vern Shinall; Teresa Stratas, Plácido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes, and Allan Monk, conducted by James Levine. Production by Franco Zeffirelli. From April 5, 1978.

Starring Eva-Maria Westbroek, Jane Bunnell, Marcelo Álvarez, George Gagnidze; Patricia Racette, Marcelo Álvarez, George Gagnidze, and Lucas Meachem, conducted by Fabio Luisi. From April 25, 2015.

An hour of gems from 19th- and 20th-century Italian opera masterworks.

Operatic roles of famous mothers featuring music by Wagner, Humperdinck, Donizetti, and more.

Operatic roles of famous mothers featuring music by Wagner, Humperdinck, Donizetti, and more.

Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana, Claude-Michel Schöenberg's Les Miserables, selections from Schindler’s List, Fiddler on the Roof, Cats, Baby Elephant Walk, Dances with Wolves, and more.

Arias from operas by Verdi, Puccini, Mascagni, Catalani, and Cilea.

Arias from operas by Verdi, Puccini, Mascagni, Catalani, and Cilea.

A wild story of love, lust and jealousy which culminates in a duel to the death, Cavalleria Rusticana includes some of the most stirring and dramatic music in opera.

A wild story of love, lust and jealousy which culminates in a duel to the death, Cavalleria Rusticana includes some of the most stirring and dramatic music in opera.

Tchaikovsky – “Rose Waltz” from Swan Lake, Op. 20
Rachmaninoff – Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18
Mascagni – “Intermezzo” from Cavalleria Rusticana
Hanson – Symphony No. 2, Op. 30 “Romantic"

Wagner – Ride of the Valkyries
Mascagni – Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana
Alfven – Swedish Rhapsody No. 1
Borodin – Overture to Prince Igor
Tchaikovsky – Prelude to The Queen of Spades
Chausson – Poeme, Op. 25
Sarasate – Zigeunerweisen (Gypsy Airs)
Kodály – Dances of Galanta

Mascagni – Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana
Wagner – Siegfried Idyll
Waggoner – Violin Concerto (world premiere)
Mahler – Adagietto from Symphony No. 5
Bizet – Carmen Suite (arr. string orchestra)

A story of rural charm matched by the beautiful music of Mascagni with a pastoral score, light of touch and colorful of harmony. A landowner, Fritz, bets Rabbi David that he will never give up the bachelor life. In the end, he is happy to be proved wrong and marries the lovely Suzel. Performed with piano and violin. Sung in Italian with English supertitles.

A story of rural charm matched by the beautiful music of Mascagni with a pastoral score, light of touch and colorful of harmony. A landowner, Fritz, bets Rabbi David that he will never give up the bachelor life. In the end, he is happy to be proved wrong and marries the lovely Suzel. Performed with piano and violin. Sung in Italian with English supertitles.