{"id":238728,"date":"2025-09-19T10:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T10:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/238728\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T10:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T10:53:09","slug":"pagliacci-comes-to-san-diego-opera-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/238728\/","title":{"rendered":"PAGLIACCI Comes to San Diego Opera Next Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the productions of its landmark 60th anniversary season, <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/rebeccadavispr.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=e2aa995a1ed8d445cdca09917&amp;id=5f22d30b88&amp;e=27d2ea7d04\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">San Diego Opera<\/a> will open its 2025-26 season with Ruggero Leoncavallo&#8217;s <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/rebeccadavispr.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=e2aa995a1ed8d445cdca09917&amp;id=6d510122ce&amp;e=27d2ea7d04\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pagliacci<\/a>. The timeless tale of love, jealousy, and revenge runs Friday, October 31, Saturday, November 1, and Sunday, November 2 at the San Diego Civic Theatre. The opera will be sung in Italian with projected translations in English and Spanish.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nPagliacci (pah-LYAH-chee) \u2013 among the most performed operas in North America tells the tragic story of a traveling commedia dell&#8217;arte troupe led by the temperamental clown, Canio, who suspects his wife Nedda of infidelity. The drama unfolds as other members of the theatrical troupe \u2013 Tonio, a fool in love with Nedda; Beppe, a comedian who plays Nedda&#8217;s lover on stage; and a chorus of spectators of all ages (including Silvio, Nedda&#8217;s secret lover) \u2013 blur the line between performance and reality, culminating in a shocking finale featuring some of opera&#8217;s most recognizable and well-loved music. \u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nWritten in 1892 in the Verismo (realism) style, Pagliacci has remained relevant for its enduring themes of jealousy, love, betrayal, and violence, which are as gripping today as at the opera&#8217;s premiere.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n<a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/David-Bennett\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">David Bennett<\/a>, the Joann Clark General Director and CEO of San Diego Opera, says he chose the \u201cgritty verismo melodrama\u201d this season as a \u201ccelebration of the human voice and its capacity to tell stories.\u201d The production stars the \u201criveting\u201d and \u201cfull-bodied tenor\u201d (Opera Today) Jonathan Burton in the role of Canio, and the \u201cconfident and supple lyric soprano\u201d (Opernglas) Hailey Clark as Nedda, plus baritone Kidon Choi as Tonio, Timothy Murray as Silvio, and <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Arnold-Livingston-Geis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Arnold Livingston Geis<\/a> as Beppe.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nPagliacci will be accompanied by the San Diego Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Principal Conductor Yves Abel, and directed by Christopher Mattaliano. \u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nLater this season, the\u00a0San Diego Opera will present\u00a0Gioachino Rossini&#8217;s\u00a0comedy The Barber of Seville, February 13-15, 2026 and <a target=\"newwinddow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.broadwayworld.com\/people\/Georges-Bizet\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Georges Bizet<\/a>&#8216;s tragedy Carmen from March 27-29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the productions of its landmark 60th anniversary season, San Diego Opera will open its 2025-26 season with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":238729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-238728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-san-diego","12":"tag-sandiego","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115230592766456366","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}