The DVD is featured by original recording of the ballet and NOT digitally re-mastered. Theatrical release: 2003; DVD release: 2005; Play time: 121; Sound formats: Dolby Digital 2.0, DTS Language(s): Italian; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Italian; Format: 4:3, Full Screen, Color; Genre(s): Opera, Show; Composer: Pietro Mascagni, Ruggeriero Leoncavallo Conductor: Elisabetta Maschio; Cast: Madelyn Monti, Mauro Buda, Angela Bonfitto; THE VERISM OF MASCAGNI AND LEONCAVALLO: For some time now the extraordinary success of Cavalleria Rusticana has found a satisfactory explanation: it is a revolutionary opera. Not even the author could immagine he was creating the opera which would surpercede romanticism and open the door to the verist period when he started to compose his Cavalleria for the Concorso Sonsogno. Mascagni was still thinking of romanticism which, for him, meant Guglielmo Ratdiff, the opera of his heart, the enduring passion of his whole life.
