At the opera screening appreciation event "O-gamhoe," audiences will experience the opera Pagliacci by the Italian composer Ruggero Leoncavallo through a large screen and powerful speakers, featuring the live performance from the 2015 Salzburg Easter Festival.
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Composer – Ruggero Leoncavallo
Conductor – Christian Thielemann
Stage Director – Philipp Stölzl
Cast – Jonas Kaufmann, Liudmyla Monastyrska, Stefania Toczyska
Orchestra – Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden

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When a traveling theater troupe arrives in a village in southern Italy, the townspeople eagerly await the evening performance. Canio, the troupe leader and clown, believes that his wife Nedda is faithful to him, but Nedda increasingly longs for freedom from their oppressive marriage. One day, Nedda shares a secret romance with a young villager named Silvio, and the two plan to leave the town together. However, Tonio, a clown in the troupe, witnesses their affair and informs Canio.

Suddenly confronted with his wife’s betrayal, Canio is consumed by violent rage, yet Nedda refuses to reveal the name of her lover. As the time for the performance approaches, Canio suppresses his collapsing emotions, puts on his clown makeup once again, and steps onto the stage. The audience expects a lighthearted comedy to begin, but reality and performance gradually become indistinguishable. As the play reenacts a husband discovering betrayal, Canio can no longer separate acting from real life and turns furiously on Nedda. Though Nedda continues to protect Silvio to the very end, Canio ultimately stabs her on stage. Silvio rushes in to stop him, only to be killed by Canio as well. Before the horrified audience, Canio declares, “The comedy is over.” Thus the opera concludes in tragedy, where love, obsession, and jealousy become fatally entangled.