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Tenor Franco Tenelli sing's Canio's aria
Canio, and his wife, and their troupe perform
adulterous comedies in their travelling
shows. This time, though, life imitates art.
Canio has just been warned that Nedda is in
the arms of another man. When Canio arrives,
the man is gone. "Tell me his name!" He
threatens. Just at that moment, they
announce, "It's show time!"
Premiere in Milano on May 21th,
1892 conducted by A.Toscanini with a
Fiorello Giraud as first Canio.
1893(Met Premiere)
It is intresting of how libretto of "I
Pagliacci"
was born,
Leoncavallo's father was a Judge at the Court
and he had to judge a case where an actor had
killed his wife on the stage.
Words:
Recitar!...mentre preso dal delirio
non so piu quel che dico e quel che faccio!
Eppur...e d'uopa...sforzati!
Bah, se tu forse un uom?
Tu se' Pagliaccio!
Vesti la giubba e
la faccia infarina.
La gente paga e rider vuole qua.
E se Arlecchin t'invo la Columbina,
ridi, Pagliaccio e ognun t'applaudira!
Tramuta in lazzi lo spasmo ed il pianto;
in una smorfia il singhiozzo e 'l dolor.
Ah!
Ridi Pagliaccio, sul tuo amore infranto!
Ridi del duol che t'avvelena il cor!
Ruggiero Leoncavallo(1858-1919)
The son of a judge, Leoncavallo was educated
at the Conservatorio San Pietro a Majella in
his native city, Naples (the date 1858, given
for his birth in older histories of music, is
incorrect). After some years spent teaching
and in ineffective attempts to obtain the
production of more than one opera, he saw the
enormous success of Mascagni's Cavalleria
Rusticana in 1890, and he wasted no time in
producing his own verismo hit, Pagliacci.
(According to Leoncavallo, the plot of this
work had a real-life origin: he claimed it
derived from a murder trial over which his
father had presided.)
Pagliacci was performed in Milan in 1892 with
immediate success; today it is the only work
by Leoncavallo in the standard operatic
repertory. Its most famous aria Vesti la
giubba ("Put on the trappings" or, in the
better-known older translation, "On with the
motley") was recorded by Enrico Caruso and
became the world's first record to sell a
million copies.
The next year his I Medici was also produced
in Milan, but neither it nor Chatterton
(1896)—both early works—obtained any
favour, and it was not until La Bohème was
performed in 1897 in Venice that his talent
obtained public confirmation. (Its two tenor
arias are still occasionally performed,
especially in Italy, yet it was outshone by
Puccini's opera of the same name and on the
same subject (albeit a better libretto),
which was premiered in 1896.) Subsequent
operas by Leoncavallo were Zazà (1900) (the
opera of Geraldine Farrar's famous farewell
performance at the Met), and Der Roland
(1904). Nothing from the latter opera is
heard today, but the baritone aria from ZazÃ
is still sometimes sung.
Leoncavallo also wrote songs, most famously
Mattinata. He died in Montecatini, Tuscany,
in 1919.
Leoncavallo was the librettist for all of his
own operas. Many considered him the greatest
Italian librettist of his time after Boito.
Among Leoncavallo's librettos for other
composers is his contribution to the libretto
for Puccini's Manon Lescaut.
Pagliacci (May 21, 1892 Teatro Dal Verme,
Milan)
I Medici (9 November 1893 Teatro Dal Verme,
Milan) [first part of the trilogy Crepusculum
- not completed ]
Chatterton (10 March 1896 Teatro Argentina,
Rome) [rev. of a work written in 1876 ]
La Bohème (6 May 1897 Teatro La Fenice,
Venice)
Zazà (10 November 1900 Teatro Lirico, Milan)
Der Roland von Berlin (13 December 1904
Deutsche Oper, Berlin)
Maia (15 January 1910 Teatro Costanzi, Rome)
Gli Zingari (16 September 1912 Hippodrome,
London)
Mimi Pinson (1913 Teatro Massimo, Palermo)
[rev. of La Bohème]
Edipo Re (13 December 1920 Opera Theatre,
Chicago)
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| Franco Corelli sings Pagliacci (vaimusic.com) |
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Franco Corelli
Final Scene from Pagliacci by Leoncavallo
(excerpt)
from: HARDY CLASSIC VIDEO
HCD4016
Franco Corelli
Pagliacci
RAI Television broadcast
September 26, 1954
with Mafalda Micheluzzi and Titto Gobbi
includes Opera arias recital
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| Vesti la giubba from Leoncavallo's "I Pagliacci" |
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Tenor Franco Tenelli sing's Canio's aria
Ruggiero Leoncavallo(1858-1919)
Premiere in Milano on May 21th,
1892 conducted by A.Toscanini with a
Fiorello Giraud as first Canio.
1893(Met Premiere)
It is intresting of how libretto of "I
Pagliacci"
was born,
Leoncavallo's father was a Judge at the Court
and he had to judge a case where an actor had
killed his wife on the stage.
Words:
Vesti la giubba e
(put on your costume)
la faccia infarina.
(and powder your face)
La gente paga e rider vuole qua.
(The public pays and wishes to laugh)
E se Arlecchin t'invo la Columbina,
(And if Harlequin steals your Colombina)
ridi, Pagliaccio e ognun t'applaudira!
(laugh, Clown, and everybody will applaud
you)
Tramuta in lazzi lo spasmo ed il pianto;
(Change the spazms and the tears in jeers)
in una smorfia il singhiozzo e 'l dolor.
(in a grimace change the sob and the pain)
Ah!
Ridi Pagliaccio, sul tuo amore infranto!
(Laugh, Clown, over your broken love)
Ridi del duol che t'avvelena il cor!
(Laugh of the pain that poisons your heart)
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