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I pagliacci (The Clowns) was written in 1892 and premiered the same year at the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan. Inspired by the success of Pietro Mascagni's 1890 opera, Cavalleria rusticana, and the new ...

"I Pagliacci” or “The Clowns,” set in a traveling circus, is one of the most popular of opera tragedies, full of irresistible music. Ruggero Leoncavallo’s 1892 dramatic tale — he wrote the libretto ...

In this OCS twofer, Houston Public Media's St.John Flynn and Eric Skelly of the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra give quick intros to Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana and Ruggero Leoncavallo's ...

The clown in striped pants, white smock and painted face is one of the most recognizable figures in opera. "I Pagliacci" ("The Clowns"), from which the character is taken, is equally famous. Of the ...

RUNTIME: About two hours, including one intermission and on-stage extra performances (see below). THUMBNAIL SKETCH: In the long history of the performing arts, traveling troupes would go from town to ...

Opera lovers go to Leoncavallo’s brief, gritty “Pagliacci” expecting a blood-and-thunder story about passion and fatal jealousy — along with one of the greatest tenor arias of all time. This past ...

GRAND RAPIDS -- Tenor John Horton Murray will be on stage this weekend, as the unhappy clown singing the aria "Vesti la giubba" in If you've seen a lot of movies or watch a lot of TV, you've probably ...

Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci and Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges were both originally slated to be conducted by Aleksandar Markovic when he was the company’s music director. But the entire enterprise is ...