Ruggero Leoncavallo
I Pagliacci

In Kari Heiskanen’s production, Leoncavallo’s undying music is given a new scenic implementation. The strolling actors turn into cinema stars and the stage into a film set. It’s all unusual and, at the same time, absolutely real – the beauty of forbidden love and the anger of the cuckolded husband. The story comes to a tragic ending in the middle of shooting a soap opera. Driven to madness, Canio stabs his wife and her lover and then kills himself in front of the bewildered witnesses of the drama.