The frequently performed double bill of Mascagni’s “Cavalleria Rusticana” and Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci” is Opera San Jose’s offering for the Feb. 15-March 1 performances that begin at 2 p.m. Sunday in the ornate California Theatre in downtown San Jose.
For this pairing, both operas directed by Shawna Lucey will be set in the same Sicilian village before World War I and after World War II, and together they project an intense atmosphere of passion, jealousy, betrayal and high drama. Alma Deutscher, the former British child prodigy composer and conductor (now still only 20 years old!) who brought her own opera “Cinderella” to the stage here before, returns to the podium.
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