Ruggiero Leoncavallo
Born: 23rd April 1857, Naples, Italy
Died: 9th August 1919, Montecatini Terme, Italy
Nationality: Italian
Ruggero (or Ruggiero) Leoncavallo was an Italian opera composer and librettist. Throughout his career, Leoncavallo produced numerous operas and songs, but it is his 1892 opera Pagliacci that remained his lasting contribution, despite attempts to escape the shadow of his greatest success.
Today Pagliacci continues to be his most famous opera and one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the operatic repertory. His other notable compositions include the song "Mattinata", popularized by Enrico Caruso, and, to a lesser extent, his version of La bohème which, however, was overshadowed by Puccini's highly successful opera of the same name.
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Carlo Rizzi on Mercadante, Leoncavallo and Donizetti
28th Dec 2023
The Italian conductor looks back on his first few years as Artistic Director of Opera Rara, including recordings of Leoncavallo's Zingari and Mercadante's Il Proscritto - plus a new mission to record the complete Donizetti songs with singers including Lawrence Brownlee and William Thomas.
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Leoncavallo's Zingari on Opera Rara
23rd Sep 2022
Carlo Rizzi conducts a scintillating account of the Pushkin-inspired one-act opera from 1912, starring Krassimira Stoyanova and Arsen Soghomonyan.
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- Andiam...Din, Don, suona il vespero (from I Pagliacci) (9)
- Aprile (5)
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- Bohemienne (5)
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