from Prelude of the Italian opera
Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni
Libretto: Guido Menasci
Role: Turiddu, a soldier, the son of Lucia
Voice Part: tenor Fach: spinto
Setting: Easter Sunday in a Sicilian village, Italy, late 1800s
Synopsis: From offstage, Turiddu sings to his love, Lola, of her many virtues and what he would go through to be with her.