With a lot of color, the costumes and scenery create the Circus atmosphere in "I Pagliacci."

"Adapted for the stage, Cavalleria Rusticana premiered in 1884, starting the verista theater. In 1886, it was time for the symphonic poem with the same name; in 1890, the melodrama Mala Pasqua and the triumphal opera by Pietro Mascagni, Cavalleria Rusticana; in 1907, another opera with the same title, by Domenico Monleone. With Mascagni, the verista ideas entered the opera world, in which, side by side of Mascagni, it is worthy mentioning Giacomo Puccini, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Umberto Giordano, Francesco Cilea and others." (Fabris)