Photos from the UTPB Music Department’s dress rehearsal of the Italian opera “I Pagliacci” or “The Clowns” Tuesday evening at the Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center’s REA-Greathouse Recital Hall. “I ...

Two 90-minute operas with the same directors give some one-hit wonders a grand if occasionally formal double bill.

Passion, betrayal, and heartbreak blaze across the stage when Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci come to Lyric Opera of Chicago ...

Just ask tenor Jonathan Burton, who has become one of America’s leading Canios, with 13 productions already under his belt.

"I Pagliacci” or “The Clowns,” set in a traveling circus, is one of the most popular of opera tragedies, full of irresistible music. Ruggero Leoncavallo’s 1892 dramatic tale — he wrote the libretto ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Lyric Opera of Kansas City General Director and CEO Deborah Sandler Kemper today ...

University of Texas Permian Basin will host a classic Italian opera this week — with English narration. “I Pagliacci,” or “The Clowns,” takes the stage at 7 p.m. Thursday, Friday and Saturday and 2:30 ...

San Diego Opera kicked off its 2025-26 season on Halloween night, where many audience members at the San Diego Civic Theatre showed up in costume, and horror movie-style drama unfolded onstage in ...

Paul Groves was a child when he first heard that classic, mournful tenor aria usually sung by a clown on opera stages. The song — specifically one of its passages — is usually recognized even by those ...

‘I Pagliacci,” Ruggiero Leoncavallo’s tragic tale of adultery and revenge set to glorious music, remains one of the most popular operas since it’s 1892 premiere. Still, a new adaptation enjoys all ...

No Negro has ever sung or been invited to sing a principal role in the Metropolitan Opera. Even dark-skinned roles (Otello, Aïda and her father, the Ethiopian King, the African slaves in Meyerbeer’s L ...