Mario Ancona
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Mario Moisè Ancona, was a leading Italian baritone and master of bel canto singing. He appeared at some of the most important opera houses in Europe and America during what is commonly referred to as
Mario Ancona, circa 1896
Pagliacci
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Pagliacci is an Italian opera in a prologue and two acts, with music and libretto by Ruggero Leoncavallo. The opera tells the tale of Canio, actor and leader of a commedia dell'arte theatrical company
Mario Ancona
…he must have received as an amateur performer. On 21 May 1892, Ancona was asked to create the part of Silvio in the first performance of Leoncavallo's Pagliacci, which took place at Milan's Teatro Dal Verme with Arturo Toscanini conducting. The next year, he appeared in the first London performance of Pagliacci…
Cover of first piano/vocal score, published in 1892
Enrico Caruso as Canio in Pagliacci, one of his signature roles