Domingo Hindoyan conductor
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Intermezzi and Preludes from Italian Verismo

AMILCARE PONCHIELLI 
La Gioconda Act III: Danza delle ore (‘Dance of the Hours’)

GIACOMO PUCCINI
Manon Lescaut Act III: Intermezzo

PIETRO MASCAGNI 
L’amico Fritz Act III: Intermezzo 
Cavalleria rusticana Intermezzo

GIACOMO PUCCINI
Le Villi Act II: Intermezzo ‘La Tregenda’ (Witches’ Dance) 

RUGGERO LEONCAVALLO
Pagliacci Intermezzo

ERMANNO WOLF-FERRARI
l segreto di Susanna Overture 

GIACOMO PUCCINI
Suor Angelica Intermezzo 
Edgar Prelude to Act III

PIETRO MASCAGNI
Le maschere Sinfonia

ERMANNO WOLF-FERRARI
I gioielli della Madonna
Intermezzo No.1 
Serenata

RANCESCO CILEA
Adriana Lecouvreur Act II: Intermezzo 
 
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Madama Butterfly Prelude to Act II, Part 2 

An album of dramatic and passionate Preludes and Intermezzos from some of the most popular Italian operas, from Domingo Hindoyan and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Translations of works by early French and Russian realists, Stendahl, Pushkin and Balzac among them, crossed international borders to inspirenew homegrown styles of literary realism. The trend took hold in Italy in the 1870s where it was promoted by the authors Luigi Capuana and Giovanni Verga under thebanner of verismo, the Italian word for realism, and drew inspiration from the naturalism of Émile Zola and his disciples. Verga’s short story Cavalleria rusticana(‘Rustic chivalry’) and the play that arose from it set the foundations for a new wave of Italian operas, with Pietro Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana serving as the genre’s enduring model