Cavalleria rusticana discography Cavalleria rusticana discography This is a discography of "Cavalleria rusticana", an opera by Pietro Mascagni. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 17 May 17, 1890. There have been over 100 full-length recordings of "Cavalleria rusticana" published since it was first recorded in Germany in 1909. Mascagni himself has conducted the opera in two recordings, the best-known of which is the 1940 EMI recording made to mark the 50th anniversary of the opera's premiere. The performance by the La Scala orchestra and chorus with Lina Bruna Rasa as Santuzza and Beniamino Gigli as Turiddu also has a spoken
Sonia Theodoridou Corinna in "Il viaggio à Reims", Giulietta in "I Capuleti e i Montecchi", the title role in "Maria Stuarda", Cleopatra in "Giulio Cesare", Jenny in "Mahagonny" and Santuzza in "Cavalleria Rusticana". She has released two operatic CDs. Theodoridou has said in interviews that she enjoys singing the work of Jacques Brel, Kurt Weill, Manos Hadjidakis, Mikis Theodorakis and Édith Piaf as much as she enjoys opera. In 2010 she and her husband (conductor Theodore Orfanidis) created "Orchestra Mobile", an orchestra composed of renowned European musicians who can play in every city literally at once. In April 2011, she organised and