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Context articles: Rapsodia satanica
Lorenzo Perosi
Cavalleria rusticana discography
Pietro Mascagni
Lina Bruna Rasa
Amica (opera)
Oscar Peterson Plays the George Gershwin Songbook
George Gershwin
Oscar Peterson Plays George Gershwin
Mala Pasqua!

Rapsodia Satanica was a 1915 silent film directed by Nino Oxilia featuring Lyda Borelli in a female version of Faust based on poems by Fausto Maria Martini.
 Pietro Mascagni wrote his only film music for the film and conducted the first performance in July 1917.
 Mascagni was keen to take commission for the film music due to the financial burden of supporting two sickening brothers.
 The French-German TV channel Arte restored the film in 2006 and Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, conducted by Frank Strobel recorded Mascagni's score.
Monsignor Lorenzo Perosi (21 December 1872 – 12 October 1956) was an Italian composer of sacred music and the only member of the Giovane Scuola who did not write opera.
 In the late 1890s, while he was still only in his 20s, Perosi was an internationally celebrated composer of sacred music, especially large-scale oratorios. Nobel Prize winner Romain Rolland wrote, "It's not easy to give you an exact idea of how popular Lorenzo Perosi is in his native country."
 Perosi's fame was not restricted to Europe.
 A 19 March 1899 "New York Times" article entitled "The Genius of Don Perosi" began, "The great and ever-increasing success which has greeted the four new oratorios of Don Lorenzo Perosi has placed this young priest-composer on a pedestal of fame which can only be compared with that which has been accorded of late years to the idolized Pietro Mascagni by his fellow-countrymen."
 Gianandrea Gavazzeni made the same comparison: "The sudden clamors of applause, at the end of the [19th] century, were just like those a decade earlier for Mascagni."
 Perosi worked for five Popes, including Pope St. Pius X who greatly fostered his rise.
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 introduction by Mascagni.
 Originally released as an LP, it is available on CD under several historical recording labels, including Naxos.
Pietro Antonio Stefano Mascagni (] ; 7 December 1863 – 2 August 1945) was an Italian composer most noted for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece "Cavalleria Rusticana" caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and single-handedly ushered in the "Verismo" movement in Italian dramatic music.
 While it was often held that Mascagni, like Leoncavallo, was a "one-opera man" who could never repeat his first success, "L'amico Fritz" and "Iris" have remained in the repertoire in Europe (especially Italy) since their premieres.
 Mascagni said that at one point, "Iris" was performed in Italy more often than "Cavalleria" (cf. Stivender).
Lina Bruna Rasa (24 September 1907 – October 1984) was an Italian operatic soprano.
 She was particularly noted for her performances in the verismo repertoire and was a favourite of Pietro Mascagni who considered her the ideal Santuzza.
 Bruna Rasa created the roles of Atte in Mascagni's "Nerone", Cecilia Sagredo in Franco Vittadini's "La Sagredo" and Saint Clare in 's 1926 oratorio, "Trittico Francescano".
 She also sang the role of Tsaritsa Militrisa in the Italian premiere of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "The Tale of Tsar Saltan".
Amica is an opera in two acts by Pietro Mascagni, originally composed to a libretto by Paul Bérel (the pseudonym of Paul de Choudens).
 The only opera by Mascagni with a French libretto, it was an immediate success with both the audience and the critics on its opening night at the Théâtre du Casino in Monte-Carlo on 16 March 1905.
 Mascagni himself conducted the performance.
 The opera had its Italian premiere (with an Italian libretto by Mascagni's close collaborator, Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti) on 13 May 1905 at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.
Oscar Peterson Plays the George Gershwin Songbook is a 1959 album by pianist Oscar Peterson of compositions written by George Gershwin.
 Peterson had recorded many of the pieces for his 1952 album "Oscar Peterson Plays George Gershwin".
George Jacob Gershwin ( ; September 26, 1898 July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist.
 Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known.
 Among his best-known works are the orchestral compositions "Rhapsody in Blue" (1924) and "An American in Paris" (1928) as well as the opera "Porgy and Bess" (1935).
Oscar Peterson Plays George Gershwin is a 1952 album by pianist Oscar Peterson of popular songs written by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin.
 Several tracks were included on the 1959 album "Oscar Peterson Plays the George Gershwin Songbook".
Mala Pasqua!
 (Bad Easter!)
 is an opera in three acts composed by Stanislao Gastaldon to a libretto by Giovanni Domenico Bartocci-Fontana.
 The libretto is based on Giovanni Verga's play, "Cavalleria rusticana" ("Rustic Chivalry") which Verga had adapted from his short story of the same name.
 "Mala Pasqua!"
 premiered on 9 April 1890 at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome, six weeks before Pietro Mascagni's opera "Cavalleria rusticana" which was also based on Verga's play.
 Bartocci-Fontana's libretto adds some elements that were not in Verga's original and expands on others.
 The name of the Santuzza character was also changed to Carmela, but the basic plot and setting remain the same.
 Its title refers to the curse which Carmela places on Turiddu, the lover who had spurned her: "Mala Pasqua a te!"
 ("May you have an evil Easter!")
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 Following its Rome premiere "Mala Pasqua!"
 had a few more performances in Perugia and Lisbon, but it was completely eclipsed by the phenomenal success of Mascagni's opera.
 After the 1891 Lisbon run it was not heard again until 2010 when it was given a semi-staged performance in Agrigento, Sicily.