Performer: Grant Youngblood

The company returned to its home at the Academy of Music after three years with a brutalist take on Verdi's middle-career masterpiece.

120 years after the Metropolitan Opera in New York paired Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci in a single performance, the tradition of staging these representative works of verismo opera in a double bill continued this weekend with a production under the direction of Lo Kingman, Hong Kong’s home-grown doyen of opera.