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"Vesti la giubba" is sung at the conclusion of the first act, when Canio discovers his wife's infidelity, but must nevertheless prepare for his performance as Pagliaccio the clown because "the show must go on". The aria is often regarded as one of the most moving in the operatic repertoire of the time.
In Cabrini, the famous solo Vesti La Giubba is sung by Rolando Villazón playing Enrico DiSalvo. The protagonist of Pagliacci, Canio, also appears as a legendary joker card in the Poker-themed video game Balatro. The opera is performed in The Simpsons episode "The Italian Bob" (2005) in which Sideshow Bob sings the final verse of Vesti la ...
Its most famous aria, "Vesti la giubba" ("Put on the costume" or, in the better-known older translation, "On with the motley"), was recorded by Enrico Caruso and laid claim to being the world's first record to sell a million copies (although this is probably a total of Caruso's various versions of it, made in 1902, 1904 and 1907).
Most of these thirty-one (1959-1961) songs were recorded in the Italian language: the exception is the third song, which was recorded in both Italian and English/Italian versions. " Il nostro concerto " and "Amore Mio" were both originally recorded by Franchi in Italian, but English/Italian versions were recorded by him on the Durium (UK) label.
Giovanni Martinelli, Tenor of the N.Y. Metropolitan Opera Company in "Vesti la giubba" from the Opera "I Pagliacci" by Leoncavallo (1926) Martinelli made a large number of commercial recordings for Edison and the Victor Talking Machine Company/RCA Victor by the acoustic and electrical processes which are available on LP and CD reissues.
The opening lyric and melody of "It's a Hard Life" is based on the line "Ridi, Pagliaccio, sul tuo amore infranto!" (Laugh, clown, at your broken love!) from "Vesti la giubba", an aria from Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci.
English Pagliacci is a 1936 British musical film directed by Karl Grune and starring Richard Tauber , Steffi Duna and Diana Napier . [ 1 ] It is an adaptation in English of the 1892 opera Pagliacci by Ruggiero Leoncavallo .
La donna e mobile and Un di, se ben rammentomi… from Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi; Come prima ( For the First Time), a hit by Panzeri, Di Paola and Taccani; Oh, Capri, a Tarantella , and the Jamaica-Rock Pineapple Picker by George E. Stoll; O sole mio, a Neapolitan folk tune; Lachterzett from the opera Così fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart