MMaxi08

Left alone Turiddu calls for his Mamma Lucia.
He tells her that he as drunk too freely and that now he must leave.
Should he not return, he begs her to be like a mother to Santuzza.
Having received her blessing, he goes.
Mamma Lucia weeps as Santuzza comes in to throw her arms around her.
They are joined by several women, one of whom has already shrieked from a distance that Turiddu has been Killed.

Here ends the Opera Cavalaria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni first performed in Rome in 1890.

Next Opera "Turandot" by Puccini (1858-1924).

the orchestral intermezzo recapitulates what as gone before and foreshadows the tragedy to follow so precipitously.

Santuzza as an act of jealousy and revenge tells the husband of Lola about his wife and her husbands affair.
Filled with rage Alfio challenges Turiddu to a Duel and Turiddu accepts it.

Santuzza sees Lola the women her husband Turiddu is having an affair.
Turiddu turns to follow her, but is stopped by the now furios Santuzza.
their quarrel intensifies, Santuzza first pleading with him to stay with her now and forever, wich only serves to make him repulse her.
She clings to him, but he throws her to the ground. She curses him as he rushes into the Church.

Untitled 1993.