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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. I pagliacci (The Clowns) was written in 1892 and premiered the same year at the ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. “This opera is a masterclass in emotional storytelling,” said Utah Opera's ...

The Atlanta Opera has released a filmed version of its Big Tent production “Pagliacci” on the digital streaming platform, Spotlight Media, which will allow viewers who missed the outdoor performances ...

Opera Vermont will present “Pagliacci,” Collier’s adaptation of Leoncavallo’s “I Pagliacci” with music from Mascagni’s “Cavalleria Rusticana,” at 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Feb. 21 and 22, at the ...

Pagliacci, Leoncavallo’s “gritty realism” classic of verismo opera, the tale of the fatal crossover between stage and real life in a troupe of carnival performers, will be performed by Project Opera, ...

Opera in the Heights (OH) celebrates its 20th year with a season that includes The Medium and The Telephone, two short operas by Gian Carlo Menotti, Rossini's beloved La Cenerentola, the story of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Not many operas by major Italian composers have had their premieres in London. One of them is Zingari, a ...

Cavalleria rusticana (Italian for "rustic chivalry") is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti and Guido Menasci, adapted from an 1880 short story ...

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"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 ...