Are Gawain and Cavalleria rusticana by the same composer?
no
Title: Cavalleria rusticana discography
Passage: This is a discography of Cavalleria rusticana, an opera by Pietro Mascagni.  It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 17 May 17, 1890.  There have been over 100 full-length recordings of "Cavalleria rusticana" published since it was first recorded in Germany in 1909.  Mascagni himself has conducted the opera in two recordings, the best-known of which is the 1940 EMI recording made to mark the 50th anniversary of the opera's premiere.  The performance by the La Scala orchestra and chorus with Lina Bruna Rasa as Santuzza and Beniamino Gigli as Turiddu also has a spoken introduction by Mascagni.  Originally released as an LP, it is available on CD under several historical recording labels, including Naxos.
Title: Domenico Monleone
Passage: Domenico Monleone (January 4, 1875 – 15 January 1942) was an Italian composer of operas, most noted for his opera "Cavalleria rusticana" of 1907, which for a while rivalled the success of Mascagni's work of the same name which was from the same source.  The work was the third opera to be based on Verga’s 1884 theatrical adaptation of his own short story, "Cavalleria rusticana", Stanislao Gastaldon’s "Mala Pasqua" (1888) being the first, and Mascagni's famous opera (1890) being the second.
Title: Pietro Mascagni
Passage: Pietro Antonio Stefano Mascagni (] ; 7 December 1863 – 2 August 1945) was an Italian composer most noted for his operas. His 1890 masterpiece "Cavalleria Rusticana" caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and single-handedly ushered in the "Verismo" movement in Italian dramatic music.  While it was often held that Mascagni, like Leoncavallo, was a "one-opera man" who could never repeat his first success, "L'amico Fritz" and "Iris" have remained in the repertoire in Europe (especially Italy) since their premieres.  Mascagni said that at one point, "Iris" was performed in Italy more often than "Cavalleria" (cf. Stivender).
Title: Fatal Desire (film)
Passage: Fatal Desire (Italian: Cavalleria rusticana) is a 3-D Italian drama film directed by Carmine Gallone.  The film is based on the opera "Cavalleria rusticana" and stars May Britt, Anthony Quinn, Ettore Manni and Kerima.  In the Italian version Quinn was dubbed by Tito Gobbi.
Title: Gawain (opera)
Passage: Gawain is an opera with music by Harrison Birtwistle to a libretto by David Harsent.  The story is based on the Middle English romance "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight".  The opera was a commission from the Royal Opera House, London, where it was first performed on 30 May 1991.  Rhian Samuel has published a detailed analysis of the opera.  Birtwistle revised it in 1994, and the premiere of the revised version was given at the Royal Opera House on 20 April 1994.
Title: Cavalleria rusticana
Passage: Cavalleria rusticana (] ; Italian for "rustic chivalry") is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from a play and short story written by Giovanni Verga.  Considered one of the classic "verismo" operas, it premiered on 17 May 1890 at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.  Since 1893, it has often been performed in a so-called "Cav/Pag" double-bill with "Pagliacci" by Ruggero Leoncavallo.
Title: Tatiana Troyanos
Passage: Tatiana Troyanos (September 12, 1938 – August 21, 1993) was an American mezzo-soprano of Greek and German descent, remembered as "one of the defining singers of her generation" ("Boston Globe").  Her voice, "a paradoxical voice—larger than life yet intensely human, brilliant yet warm, lyric yet dramatic"—"was the kind you recognize after one bar, and never forget," wrote Cori Ellison in "Opera News".  Troyanos' performances "covered the full range of operatic history" ("New York Times") in an international career of three decades which also produced a variety of memorable operatic recordings, among them "Carmen" (co-starring Plácido Domingo and conducted by Georg Solti), cited by "Classicalite" almost four decades later as "the finest of all "Carmen"s." After ten years based at the Hamburg State Opera, Troyanos became widely known for her work with the Metropolitan Opera beginning in 1976, with over 270 performances (several dozen of them broadcast or televised) spanning twenty-two major roles.  "She was extraordinarily intense, beautiful, and stylish in roles as diverse as Eboli, Santuzza, Geschwitz, Venus, Kundry, Jocasta, Carmen, and Giulietta, in addition to her great 'trouser' roles," said the Met's longtime Music Director, James Levine.  The Met's live telecasts of her "signature" trouser roles, Octavian in "Der Rosenkavalier" and the Composer in "Ariadne auf Naxos", have been preserved on DVD, along with her portrayals of Eboli (in "Don Carlo"), Santuzza (in "Cavalleria rusticana"), Venus (in "Tannhäuser"), and Didon (in "Les Troyens").
Title: Niccola Spinelli
Passage: Niccola Spinelli (born Turin, Italy 1865 – died Rome 18 October, 1909) was an Italian composer of operas.  Born in Turin, the son of a jurist, he studied composition at the Naples Conservatory under Paolo Serrao.  His opera "Labilia" won the second-place prize in an 1890 opera competition organized by Milanese music publisher Edoardo Sonzogno, and premiered in Rome on 9 May 1890; the first prize went to Pietro Mascagni for "Cavalleria rusticana".  His most well-known work is "A Basso Porto" ("At the Lower Harbor"), which premiered in Cologne on 18 April 1894 to great popular acclaim.
Title: Mala Pasqua!
Passage: Mala Pasqua!  (Bad Easter!)  is an opera in three acts composed by Stanislao Gastaldon to a libretto by Giovanni Domenico Bartocci-Fontana.  The libretto is based on Giovanni Verga's play, "Cavalleria rusticana" ("Rustic Chivalry") which Verga had adapted from his short story of the same name.  "Mala Pasqua!"  premiered on 9 April 1890 at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome, six weeks before Pietro Mascagni's opera "Cavalleria rusticana" which was also based on Verga's play.  Bartocci-Fontana's libretto adds some elements that were not in Verga's original and expands on others.  The name of the Santuzza character was also changed to Carmela, but the basic plot and setting remain the same.  Its title refers to the curse which Carmela places on Turiddu, the lover who had spurned her: "Mala Pasqua a te!"  ("May you have an evil Easter!") .  Following its Rome premiere "Mala Pasqua!"  had a few more performances in Perugia and Lisbon, but it was completely eclipsed by the phenomenal success of Mascagni's opera.  After the 1891 Lisbon run it was not heard again until 2010 when it was given a semi-staged performance in Agrigento, Sicily.
Title: Bernardo de Muro
Passage: Bernardino de Muro was born on November 3, 1881, in Tempio Pausania, Sardinia, to Antonio Maria and Jeanne-Marie Demuro.  His father was a small landowner.  Bernardo’s formal education ceased at primary school.  Initially self-taught, he began singing in a café in Tempio.  Moving to Rome, he participated in a competition for admission to the Conservatory of St. Cecilia in 1903.  He studied under A. Sbriscia and Alfredo Martino.  His operatic debut was on May 12, 1910, at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome, performing in "Cavalleria rusticana" by Mascagni.  He received flattering reviews for this performance.  In the next few years he performed in "Madama Butterfly", "L'Africaine", "Carmen", and further performances of "Cavalleria rusticana".  Although he was long a star at La Scala, he was largely unknown to American audiences until he began to tour there.  His continued career carried him to such places as the Solis in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1916, the Dal Verme in Milan (performing "Mefistofele"), the Hippodrome, St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1927, and The Dell Ofrecie Grand Opera Company of New York (performing "Aida").
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