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Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci

Presented by Nashville Opera Association at TPAC - Andrew Jackson Hall

December 2-December 4, 2011

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Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci will be performed Friday, December 2 at 8:00pm; Saturday, December 3 at 8:00pm; and Sunday, December 4 at 2:00pm at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center’s James K. Polk Theater. Principal artists include Allan Glassman, tenor as Canio; Elizabeth Caballero, soprano as Nedda; and Todd Thomas, baritone as Tonio. Pagliacci is sung in Italian with projected English translations, and features the Nashville Opera Orchestra under the direction of Maestro William Boggs.

This famous play-within-a-play-where the clown who makes others laugh is sobbing inside, because onstage and off, his actress-wife is having a torrid affair with a younger man-is high-testosterone Italian opera at its best! Full of irony and some of the most powerful music ever written, Pagliacci cemented the new, more realistic (read shocking and gritty!) verismo opera into the art form’s canon. Based on the lives of real people, verismo opera was calculated to stir an emotional reaction from audiences, and Pagliacci has been doing just that since 1890!

Tenor Allan Glassman, a regular at the Metropolitan Opera, triumphed as Herod in a new production of Salome starring Karita Mattila in 2004, and has since been heard in the MET’s productions of Die Frau Ohne Schatten, Boris Godunov, The Great Gatsby, Carmen, Elektra, Káta Kabanová and The Ghost of Versailles, among others. He has also been a frequent guest at New York City Opera, where he has performed the title role in Les Contes D’Hoffmann, Cavaradossi in Tosca, Don José in Carmen and Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, among many other productions.

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    TPAC - Andrew Jackson Hall

    505 Deaderick Street
    Nashville, TN 37219

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    $21.50-$97.50/Individual Tickets

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    December 2-December 4, 2011

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    Friday and Saturday 8:00pm, Sunday 2:00pm

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