By Lawrence Budmen

While Pietro Mascagni achieved his greatest success with his very first opera, the violent and impassioned Cavalleria Rusticana, his second opera L'Amico Fritz, composed in 1891, was also highly acclaimed in its day.

That score continues to hold the stage in Italy but has largely disappeared from the international operatic repertoire. Miami Lyric Opera, which presented the opera in 2011, revived their production Saturday night at Miami Beach's Colony Theater.

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