Access Services: Assisted Listening Devices, Audio Description, Scripted Captioning
Access Notes: Sung in Italian with English captions projected above the stage. Describer: TBA.
Location
Schedule and Tickets
The website does not make it easy to find the price of tickets, so contact Patron Services at 612-333-6669 or tickets@mnopera.org. Patrons who use Audio Description are entitled to a 50% discount. To check out a headset, be prepared to leave a form of ID with Ordway staff; it will be returned to you upon receipt of a headset following the show.
About the Show
May 9-17, 2026
MUSIC AND LIBRETTO BY RUGGERO LEONCAVALLO
The show must go on, but how? For Canio and his traveling troupe, painted smiles and colorful costumes belie infidelity and betrayal. The façade is shattered when a hidden affair is revealed and a lighthearted night at the theater gives way to jealousy, suspicion and ultimately violence. As the line between performance and reality blurs and the drama onstage begins to mirror the turmoil offstage, Pagliacci begs the question — does art imitate life, or does life imitate art?
Content Advisory: Act I includes a representation of an attempted sexual assault. Act II includes a representation of the murder of two characters by gun shots, witnessed by children, as well as talk of suicide.
Estimated Run Time: 1 hour 45 minutes with 1 intermission.
Saturday, May 9 at 7:30pm
Sunday, May 10 at 2pm (audio described)
Thursday, May 14 at 7:30pm
Saturday, May 16 at 7:30pm
Sunday, May 17 at 2:00pm