Prelude: "O Lola" In 1888 the publishing house Sanzogno called for a competition for composing operas in three act, with a theme chosen by the participants. There was prize money and the immediate staging of the operas that achieved the first three places. By then, Pietro Mascagni was 25 years old and was almost unknown. He had withdrawn from the Milan Conservatory and worked as director of a company itinerant opera. No one - not even he - thought that in the short term could move on to occupy an important place in the musical life of Italy at the end of XIX Century. Mascagni knew of the contest brought and took the opportunity to make themselves known to the musicalization of the novel "Cavallería Rusticana" by Giovanni Verga, and success in Italy to be converted into a theater piece. Mascagni asked for the drafting of the text to the librettists Giovanni Targioni-Tossetti and Guido Menasci, and composed the opera in a few months. They submitted to the contest, and works between 72 participants, won the first prize. "Cavalry Rusticana" was the first and only renowned opera composed by Mascagni, resting it practically his whole life and fame. The most accurate translation of the title would be "Rustic Chivalry or parochial" and refers to a code of honor that governs in a modest community Sicilian. __________________________________Spanish lyrics for Tiriddu Prelude:PRELUDIOTURIDDU(fuera de escena)¡Oh Lola, cuya camisa es blancacomo la leche, eres blancay encarnada cual cereza,cuando te asomas eres toda sonrisas;bendito seael que te dio el primer beso.Tu puerta de sangre está rociada y no me importaríamatarme ante tu umbral;y si al morir yo fuera al Paraísono entraría si no te encontrara allí./"Caballerosidad rústica o pueblerina"/

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