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
Cover of first piano/vocal score, published in 1892
Enrico Caruso as Canio in Pagliacci, one of his signature roles
Cavalleria rusticana
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Cavalleria rusticana 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 of the same name and subsequent
Pagliacci
…Montegriffo as Canio). Pagliacci is the best-known of Leoncavallo's ten operas and remains a staple of the repertoire. Pagliacci is often staged with Cavalleria rusticana by Pietro Mascagni, a double bill known colloquially as "Cav/Pag". Leoncavallo was a little-known composer when Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana…
Scene from the world premiere of the opera
Mascagni (center) with his librettists, Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti (left) and Guido Menasci
Russian edition of the Cavalleria rusticana script (1896)
Gemma Bellincioni as Santuzza, and her husband, Roberto Stagno, as Turiddu, in the 1890 premiere of Cavalleria rusticana