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Pagliacci (Italian pronunciation: [paʎˈʎattʃi]; literal translation, 'Clowns') [a] is an Italian opera in a prologue and two acts, with music and libretto by Ruggero Leoncavallo. The opera tells the tale of Canio, actor and leader of a commedia dell'arte theatrical company, who murders his wife Nedda and her lover Silvio on stage during a ...
Vesti la giubba" (Italian: [ˈvɛsti la ˈdʒubba], "Put on the costume", often referred to as "On With the Motley", from the original 1893 translation by Frederic Edward Weatherly) is a tenor aria from Ruggero Leoncavallo's 1892 opera Pagliacci.
Throughout his career, Leoncavallo produced numerous operas and songs but it is his 1892 opera Pagliacci that remained his lasting contribution, despite attempts to escape the shadow of his greatest success. Today Pagliacci continues to be his most famous opera and one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the operatic repertory.
Audiences enraptured by the Florida Grand Opera’s production of “I pagliacci” and lead singers Limmie Pulliam and Kearstin Piper Brown gave standing ovations to the classic play within a play.
Cavalleria rusticana (pronounced [kavalleˈriːa rustiˈkaːna]; Italian for 'Rustic Chivalry') is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from an 1880 short story of the same name and subsequent play by Giovanni Verga.
Pagliacci is a 1982 Italian film of Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci, directed by Franco Zeffirelli. All the actors, including Plácido Domingo and Teresa Stratas in the starring roles, were opera singers who sang their own parts. Pagliacci was shot at Milan's La Scala opera house and on a movie sound stage.
Pagliacci (English: Clowns) is an opera written and composed by Ruggero Leoncavallo, that premiered in 1892. Pagliacci or I Pagliacci (English: The Clowns) may also refer to: Adaptations of Leoncavallo's opera: I Pagliacci, a silent Italian film based on the opera; I Pagliacci, a silent British film based on the opera
A marvelously mixed crowd turns out for L.A. Opera's new production of 'Tosca' staring Angel Blue, Gregory Kunde and Ryan McKinny.