“Pagliacci” sneaks up on you. It’s made with as much savvy as inspiration, as if Leoncavallo were setting a trap for his audience. It begins, of course, with Tonio, a clown in a commedia dell’arte ...
"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 ...
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