San Diego Opera opened its 2025-26 season on a Halloween night with an appropriately disturbing opera about a murderous clown. Its unsavory plot hasn’t kept Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci from ...

The first is charming and easy to watch as a hot knife through butter—smooth and delightful! The music is like floating silk that gently touches all the senses. The more we see the image of white and ...

Love, obsession, death and a lot of great music: All those staples of opera are on display in “Pagliacci,” which opened Seattle Opera’s 2024-25 season Saturday and runs through Aug. 17. “Pagliacci” ...

Tragedy in opera can deliver an emotional sucker punch like no other medium. Usually, the music is to blame. But when the main characters also work in a clown troupe and must continue to entertain ...

"I Pagliacci” or “The Clowns,” set in a traveling circus, is one of the most popular of opera tragedies, full of irresistible music. Ruggero Leoncavallo’s 1892 dramatic tale — he wrote the libretto ...

From the ridiculous to the sublime. That’s one way of looking at Minnesota Opera’s 2025-26 season. What opens with a silly Mozart rom-com concludes with the backstage tragedy of Ruggero Leoncavallo’s ...