Ruggiero Leoncavallo (April 23, 1857- August 9, 1919) was an Italian opera composer. 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 Zazà 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. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.


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Pagliacci / Act 1: "Recitar!...Vesti la giubba"
Mattinata
Vesti La Giubba
Pagliacci / Act 1: "Vesti la giubba"
Mattinata (Orch. Faris)
Intermezzo
Pagliacci: Vesti la giubba
Recitar... Vesti la giubba
Recitar! ... Vesti La Giubba
Pagliacci, Act. I - Vesti la giubba
Act I: Nedda!...Silvio! A quest'ora che imprudenza! (Nedda, Silvio)
Act I: E fra quest'ansie in eterno vivrai (Silvio, Nedda)
Barcarola veneziana
Pagliacci / Act 1: Intermezzo
Pagliacci / Act 1: "Un grande spettacolo!"
Pagliacci / Act 1: "Un tal gioco, credetemi"
Scene II - Stridono lassu
Pagliacci / Act 2: "No, Pagliaccio non son"
Pagliacci / Act 1: "Qual fiamma aveva nel guardo!"
Vesti la giubba (From "For the First Time")
Pagliacci / Act 1: "Son qua! Ritornano"
Mattinata, Op. 5
Pagliacci, Act 1: "Recitar!... Vesti la giubba"
Pagliaccio, mio marito
Pagliacci / Act 1: "I zampognari!"
Pagliacci / Act 1: "Vesti la giubba" - Live
Scene II - Scena comica: E dessa!
Pagliacci / Prologue: Prelude..."Si può? Signore! Signori!"
Pagliacci / Act 2: "Presto, affrettiamoci"
Pagliacci / Act 2: "Pagliaccio, mio marito"
Pagliacci / Act 2: "Arlecchin! Colombina!" - "Prendi questo narcotico"
Pagliacci / Act 1: "Sei là" - "So ben che difforme" - "Oh! lasciami"
Valse mignonne
Pagliacci / Act 1: "Recitar!" - "Vesti la giubba"
Pagliacci / Act 1: "Cammina adagio" - "Derisione e scherno!" - "Padron! che fate!"
Pagliacci / Act 2: "E dessa! Dei, come è bella"
Pagliacci / Act 2: "No, Pagliaccio non son...Suvvia, cosi terribile"
Pagliacci: Recitar - Vesti la giubba
Leoncavallo: Mattinata (Orch. Faris)
Pagliacci / Act 2: "Versa il filtro ne la tazza sua!"
Pagliacci / Act 1: "Nedda! Silvio!...E allor perché"
Pagliacci : "Recitar!" - "Vesti la giubba"
Pagliacci / Act 1: "Recitar!"
Act I: Vesti la giubba
Leoncavallo: Pagliacci / Act 1 - "Recitar!...Vesti la giubba"
Pagliacci / Act 1: "Recitar!" - Live
Serenade
Leoncavallo: I pagliacci, Act 1: "Vesti la giubba" (Canio)
Leoncavallo: Mattinata
Pagliacci / Act 1: "Stridono lassù"



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