Compositions by Ruggiero Leoncavallo - Arias by Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Operas by Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Pagliacci, Vesti La Giubba, La Bohme (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Arias by Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Operas by Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Pagliacci, Vesti La Giubba, La Bohme, Chatterton, Are You There?, Zaz, Mattinata, I Medici. Excerpt: Pagliacci (Players, or Clowns) is an opera consisting of a prologue and two acts written and composed by Ruggero Leoncavallo. It recounts the tragedy of a jealous husband in a commedia dell'arte troupe. (Its name is sometimes incorrectly rendered as I Pagliacci with a definite article.) Pagliacci premiered at the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan on May 21, 1892, conducted by Arturo Toscanini with Adelina Stehle as Nedda, Fiorello Giraud as Canio, Victor Maurel as Tonio, and Mario Ancona as Silvio. Nellie Melba created the role of Nedda in London in 1892, soon after its Italian premiere, and in New York in 1893. It is the only opera of Leoncavallo that is still widely staged. Since 1893, it has usually been performed in a double bill with Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana, a pairing referred to in the operatic world colloquially as "Cav and Pag". Although this pairing has long been the norm in most places, some theatres have been very late in staging these two works together. For example, the Mikhaylovsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg presented the double bill for the first time only in February 2009. Cover of the first edition of Pagliacci published by E. Sonzogno, Milan, 1892. The French baritone, Victor Maurel, who created the role of Tonio.Around 1890, when Cavalleria rusticana premiered, Leoncavallo was a little-known composer. After seeing its success, he decided to write a similar opera. It was to be in one act and composed in the verismo style. A lawsuit was brought against him for plagiarism of the libretto by Catulle Mends, whose 1887 play entitled La Femme de Tabarin shar... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=377819