Listen to the comments as well as the music .presented  here by two wonderful singers.

Intermezzo, Cavalleria rusticana, by Mascagni

Merry Christmas to all.

P.S.  I just recalled that as a 12 year old, I was playing this piece with my school orchestra in Queens Cross Church,Glasgow, Scotland, when the E string of my violin snapped.  Such embarrassment but obviously such emotion in my playing!.