YMMV / Cavalleria Rusticana

• Adaptation Displacement: Adapted from an 1880 short story of the same name and subsequent play by Giovanni Verga, both largely forgotten.
• Awesome Music: It's an opera, so there are many great numbers. But the instrumental Intermezzo stands out in particular.
• Designated Hero: Turiddu is a poor excuse of a man. He's an adulterer, a thoughtless heartbreaker, and a whiner. And a Karma Houdini to boot. So, it's hardly surprising that he's the one who has to die.
• Fair for Its Day: What Santuzza goes through, inaccurate to real life as it is, can be seen as a denunciation on Slut-Shaming.
• First Installment Wins: This is the first opera produced by Mascagni. It's also the only one that most people will actually witness a live performance of.
• One-Hit Wonder: As with Leoncavallo, Mascagni composed other operas, but hardly anyone has ever heard of them.