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  • Staging was awkward at times in "Pagliacci," the story of a jealous actor who turns to violence.

    A night at the opera, small-scale but satisfying Post 2010

  • While "Sister Angelica" will be performed in English, "Pagliacci" will be in the traditional Italian with accompanying supertitles.

    Crimson White RSS 2009

  • In fact there was another significant debut from Alberto Mastromarino who sang Tonio in Pagliacci and also filled in for an ailing Charles Taylor as Alfio before the intermission.

    Penalty Box 2009

  • Only, how to know whether to recoil and fly, or to pass beyond the dread of letting herself go, of plunging deep into the unknown depths of love -- of that passion, whose nature for the first time she had tremulously felt, watching "Pagliacci" -- and had ever since been feeling and trembling at!

    Beyond John Galsworthy 1900

  • "Pagliacci" -- works of which Gyp tolerated the first and loved the second, while Winton found them, with "Faust" and "Carmen," about the only operas he could not sleep through.

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • Only, how to know whether to recoil and fly, or to pass beyond the dread of letting herself go, of plunging deep into the unknown depths of love -- of that passion, whose nature for the first time she had tremulously felt, watching "Pagliacci" -- and had ever since been feeling and trembling at!

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • "Pagliacci" -- that wonderful passage where the injured husband pours out his soul in agony.

    The Judgment House Gilbert Parker 1897

  • "Pagliacci" -- that wonderful passage where the injured husband pours out his soul in agony.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • Lola in "Cavalleria" and Nedda in "Pagliacci" -- both objects of desire and catalysts of tragedy -- were floozy-like (chewing gum and smoking cigarettes, their bright-colored clothes set against a monochromatic landscape), and their macho suitors paraded around in wife-beater undershirts.

    A Tango Opera Loses Its Edge 2007

  • At the opera, that Friday evening, they were playing "Cavalleria" and "Pagliacci" -- works of which Gyp tolerated the first and loved the second, while Winton found them, with "Faust" and "Carmen," about the only operas he could not sleep through.

    Beyond John Galsworthy 1900

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