Pietro Mascagni - Cavalleria Rusticana - (1890)
Opera in one act
Libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci.
Santuzza
Tuija Knihtlä
Turiddu
Giancarlo Monsalve
Alfio
Alberto Gazale
Lola
Luciana Bueno
Mamma Lucia
Lídia Schäffer
Conductor - Ira Levin
Live recording - Theatro Municipal de São Paulo - São Paulo - Brazil - October 26 2014

Pietro Mascagni - Cavalleria Rusticana - Knihtlä  - Monsalve  - Levin - São Paulo - 2014

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Venga pur ( Let him come), from Mitridate, re di Ponto  (Mithridates, King of Pontus) - 1770
Lyrics by Vittorio Amedeo Cigna-Santi
Felipe de Sá - contra-tenor
Daniel Gonçalves - piano
Live recording - Sala Mário Lago, Jacareí, SP, Brazil - June 9th 2021
Illustration - Gold stater of Mithridates c. 89 BCE

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Venga pur, from Mitridate, re di Ponto  Jacareí - 2021

Giacomo Puccini - Che gelida manina (What a frozen little hand), from La Bohème 1896
Lyrics by Luigi Illica - Giuseppe Giacosa
Lucas Melo - tenor
Daniel Gonçalves - piano
Live recording - Sala Mário Lago, Jacareí, SP, Brazil - June 9th 2021
Illustration - Vincent van Gogh - Study of hands

Giacomo Puccini - Che gelida manina, from La Bohème  - Jacareí - 2021

Gian Carlo Menotti - I Know That You All Hate Me, from The Saint of Bleecker Street  1954
Lyrics by teh composer
Lucas Melo - tenor
Daniel Gonçalves - piano
Live recording - Sala Mário Lago, Jacareí, SP, Brazil - June 9th 2021
Illustration -
John Sloan - Bleecker Street, Saturday Night

Gian Carlo Menotti - I Know That You All Hate Me, from The Saint of Bleecker Street - Jacareí - 2021

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Parto, parto, ma tu ben mio (I leave, I leave, but you, my dearest), from La clemenza di Tito  (The Clemency of Titus) 1791
Lyrics by Caterino Mazzolà
Catarina Taira - contralto
Daniel Gonçalves - piano
Live recording - Sala Mário Lago, Jacareí, SP, Brazil - June 9th 2021
Illustration - Portrait of Emperor Titus, anonymous Flemish work from the 16th century

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Parto, from La clemenza di Tito -  Jacareí - 2021

Gioacchino Rossini - La calunnia, from Il barbiere di Siviglia, ossia L'inutile precauzione) 1816
Lyrics by Cesare Sterbini
Andrey Mira - bass
Flávio Lago - piano
Live recording - Sala Mário Lago, Jacareí, SP, Brazil - June 9th 2021
Illustration - Eugene Berman, costume design for Don Basilio in Il Barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville)

Gioacchino Rossini - La calunnia, from Il barbiere di Siviglia - Andrey Mira, Flavio Lago - Jacareí - 2021

Ruggero Leoncavallo - Qual Fiamma (What flame), from Pagliacci (Clowns)  1892
Lyrics by the composer
Higla Noel - Soprano
Daniel Gonçalves - piano
Live recording - Sala Mário Lago, Jacareí, SP, Brazil - June 9th 2021
Illustration - Abraham Bisschop - Birds

Ruggero Leoncavallo - Qual Fiamma, from Pagliacci - Jacareí - 2021

Gaetano Donizetti - O luce di quest'anima (O light of this soul), from Linda de Chamounix (Linda from Chamounix) - 1842
Lyrics by  Gaetano Rossi
Raquel Paulin - soprano
Flávio Lago - piano
Live recording - Sala Mário Lago, Jacareí, SP, Brazil - June 9th 2021
Illustration - Jacareí, Solar Gomes Leitão

Gaetano Donizetti - O luce di quest'anima, from Linda de Chamounix -Jacareí - 2021

Ruggero Leoncavallo - Recitar (Recite), from Pagliacci (Clowns) 1892
Lyrics by teh composer
Lucas Melo - Tenor
Flavio Lago - piano
Live recording - Sala Mário Lago, Jacareí, SP, Brazil - June 9th 2021
Illustration - Pablo Picasso - Clown

Ruggero Leoncavallo - Recitar, from Pagliacci - Jacareí - 2021

Léo Delibes - The bell song, from Lakmé 1892
Lyrics by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille
Maria Gerk - Soprano
Daniel Gonçalves - piano
Live recording - Sala Mário Lago, Jacareí, SP, Brazil - June 9th 2021
Illustration - Fresco of Bundi, Rajasthan

Léo Delibes - The bell song, from Lakmé - Jacareí - 2021

Leonard Bernstein - Glitter and be gay, from Candide - 1956/1974
Lyrics by Richard Wilbur  and others
Maria Gerk - Soprano
Daniel Gonçalves - piano
Live recording - Sala Mário Lago, Jacareí, SP, Brazil - June 9th 2021
Illustration - Jean Honoré Fragonard

Pietro Mascagni - Cavalleria Rusticana - Knihtlä - Monsalve - Levin - São Paulo - 2014

Jorge Coli