For centuries, the joy and comedy that clowns bring their audiences have often been fused with the dark underbelly of human emotions - despair, revenge, and rage. Ruggero Leoncavallo's operatic masterpiece Pagliacci does just that and is still widely performed thanks to its timeless, storytelling score. Experience its majesty in this production from the San Diego Opera, conducted by Yves Abel and directed by Christopher Mattaliano, with Jonathan Burton as the embittered Canio.