The New Jersey Association of Verismo Opera (Verismo Opera) celebrates the year of Italian culture in America with its new production of Giacomo Puccini's Suor Angelica and Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana. Verismo Opera presents the grand production live with a full cast today, October 20, 3:00 p.m., at the Bergen Performing Arts Center (bergenPAC), 30 North Van Brunt Street, in Englewood, New Jersey.

Under Artistic Director Lucine Amara, one of the Metropolitan Opera's luminary performers, Verismo Opera performs the sentimental tragedy Suor Angelica. Witness a heroine's tragic plight harrow the emotions as hauntingly as Puccini's other great work, Madama Butterfly. Then, follow four people's roller-coaster lives in the one-act melodrama of rustic chivalry, Cavalleria Rusticana, as a triangle of passion, jealousy, and bitterness leads only to death.

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