Cavalleria rusticana/Pagliacci, Holland Park, London
Holland Park, London: Opera Holland Park opens its summer season with a double bill of the two works opera fans usually call just 'Cav & Pag'. Mascagni's Cavalleria began the Italian verismo (or realist) movement in Rome in 1890; Leoncavallo's Pagliacci followed the new trend in Milan two years later. In Stephen Barlow's hard-hitting stagings, and with conductor Stuart Stratford securing …