Daniel Rodríguez (tenor) sang the role of Turridu opposite international soprano Cristina Fontanelli, in Pietro Mascagni's one-act opera, "Cavalleria Rusticana". June 2012 Daniel performs in Madama Butterfly with Chelsea Opera in role of Lt. B. F. Pinkerton. Daniel is married to Marla Kavanaugh, a soprano who has performed around the world in concert and in opera. She was born in Dunedin, New Zealand and began her stage career at the age of five. Daniel and family relocated from New York to California in 2017. He and his wife continue traveling often perform together. They have one daughter, born in New Zealand in 2009.
Cavalleria rusticana was as the theme for a regular radio broadcast, "Symphony of the Rockies," which featured "a small string group playing light classical music" in the 1930s and 1940s over Denver radio station KOA, then owned and operated by the NBC network. It "was a 'feed' to the entire network from the KOA studios." Apart from video recordings of live performances, there have been several cinematic versions of "Cavalleria rusticana", the most notable of which are: The opera's symphonic Intermezzo has figured in the sound track of several films, most notably in the opening of "Raging Bull" and in the finale