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Pages in category "Italian clowns" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C. Charlie Cairoli; F.
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 ...
Frenchy the Clown – character of the national lampoon comic Evil clown comics series. Fun Gus the Laughing Clown - cursed character in the cosmic/folk horror novel, "The Cursed Earth" by D.T. Neal (Nosetouch Press, 2022). The Ghost Clown – evil hypnotist clown featured in the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode titled "Bedlam in the Big Top"
The name is a diminutive of Pierre (Peter), using the suffix -ot and derives from the Italian Pedrolino. His character in contemporary popular culture—in poetry, fiction, and the visual arts, as well as works for the stage, screen, and concert hall—is that of the sad clown , often pining for love of Columbine (who usually breaks his heart ...
Pulcinella in a 19th-century Italian print Capodimonte porcelain jar with three figures of Pulcinella. Naples, Italy, 1745–1750.. Pulcinella (Italian: [pultʃiˈnɛlla]; Neapolitan: Pulecenella) is a classical character that originated in commedia dell'arte of the 17th century and became a stock character in Neapolitan puppetry.
Italian clowns (6 P) M. Mexican clowns (3 P) N. New Zealand clowns (2 P) P. Portuguese clowns (1 P) R. Russian clowns (15 P) S. Soviet clowns (14 P) Spanish clowns (1 ...
Born in Affori, Milan, Italy to a travelling circus family of French origin, he began his performing career at the age of seven, under the name ' Carletto '. [1] He met Violetta Fratellini, who was also from a circus family, in 1934 when they were both working at the Cirque Medrano at Montmartre: he was with his father, Jean-Marie Cairoli (1879–1956), in a clown act as ' The Cairoli Brothers ...
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.