Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari’s barbed 1909 comedy Il Segreto di Susanna feels like a Noël Coward play set to music, while Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci is a powerful story of a woman’s murder by an abusive partner ...
What is it that the men are doing at their exclusively male club? Enjoying the attentions of beautiful women? Gambling away the family fortunes? Turning lead into gold? A quartet of two wives, a ...