Cavalleria rusticana is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from an 1880 short story of the same name and subsequent play by Giovanni Verga. Wikipedia
Composer: Pietro Mascagni
Librettists: Guido Menasci and Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti
Written: 1889
First performance: May 17, 1890, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Rome, Italy
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