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Biography. The son of Vincenzo Leoncavallo, a police magistrate and judge, Leoncavallo was born in Naples, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, on 23 April 1857.. As a child, Leoncavallo moved with his father to the town of Montalto Uffugo in Calabria, where he lived during his adolescence.
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- 9 August 1919 (aged 62), Montecatini Terme, Italy
- Ruggiero Giacomo Maria Giuseppe Emmanuele Raffaele Domenico Vincenzo Francesco Donato Leoncavallo, 23 April 1857, Naples
Mar 21, 2024 · Ruggero Leoncavallo was a Neapolitan opera composer whose fame rests on the opera Pagliacci, which, with Pietro Mascagni’s Cavalleria rusticana (1890), represented a reaction against Richard Wagner and against Romantic Italian opera; both works substituted for the quasi-historical plot a
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Apr 23, 2019 · Learn about the life and works of Ruggero Leoncavallo, the Italian composer who wrote the famous opera 'Pagliacci' in 1892. Find out how he started as a pianist, moved to Paris, and created 11 operas and operettas.
Ruggero (or Ruggiero)[a] Leoncavallo (Italian: 23 April 1857 – 9 August 1919) was an Italian opera composer and librettist. Although he produced numerous operas and songs throughout his career it is his opera Pagliacci (1892) that remained his lasting contribution, despite attempts to escape the shadow of his greatest success.
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Jan 6, 2015 · Learn about the life and career of Ruggero Leoncavallo, an Italian opera composer who wrote Pagliacci, one of the most-performed operas worldwide. Find out his relation to Mahler, his correspondence, his disputed last opera Edipo re, and his legacy.
Soon thereafter, Leoncavallo realized the potential of realism in opera and began composing what would be become Pagilacci, based on the facts of one of his magistrate father's legal cases. Pagliacci was an immediate success, and paved the way for public performances of his earlier works, I Medici and Chatterton .
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