RUNTIME: About two hours, including one intermission and on-stage extra performances (see below). THUMBNAIL SKETCH: In the long history of the performing arts, traveling troupes would go from town to ...

The Opera Festival of Chicago presents Pagliacci, Friday, June 27 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, June 29 at 2 p.m. at the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts, 9501 Skokie Blvd. The 2025 season ...

"I Pagliacci” or “The Clowns,” set in a traveling circus, is one of the most popular of opera tragedies, full of irresistible music. Ruggero Leoncavallo’s 1892 dramatic tale — he wrote the libretto ...

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