Ruggiero Leoncavallo (March 8, 1857 - August 9, 1919) was an Italian opera composer. Description: Ruggiero Leoncavallo Size: 240 &times 307 pixels Source: What We Hear in Music, Anne S. Faulkner, Victor Talking Machine Co. ... March 8 is the 67th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (68th in Leap years). ... 1857 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... August 9 is the 221st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (222nd in leap years), with 144 days remaining. ... 1919 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... The foyer of Charles Garniers Opéra, Paris, opened 1875 Opera is an art form consisting of a dramatic stage performance set to music. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ...

He was born in Naples and educated at the Conservatorio San Pietro a Majella of that city. After some years spent teaching and in ineffective attempts to obtain the production of more than one opera, he saw the enormous success of Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana in 1890, and he wasted no time in producing his own Verismo hit, Pagliacci. Pagliacci was performed in Milan in 1892 with immediate success; today it is the only work by Leoncavallo in the standard operatic repertory. The next year his Medici was also produced in Milan, but neither it nor Chatterton (1896)—both early works—obtained any favour, and it was not until La Bohème was performed in 1897 in Venice that his talent obtained public confirmation. (Its two tenor arias are still occasionally sung, especially in Italy.) Subsequent operas by Leoncavallo were Zazà (1900) (the opera of Geraldine Farrar's famous farewell performance at the Met), and Der Roland (1904). Nothing from the latter opera is heard today, but the baritone aria from Zazà is still often sung. Location within Italy Naples (Italian Napoli, Neapolitan Napule, from Greek Νέα Πόλις - Néa Pólis - meaning New City) is the largest city in southern Italy and capital of Campania Region. ... Pietro Mascagni (Livorno December 7, 1863 - Rome August 2, 1945) is one of the most important Italian opera composers of the turn of the 20th century. ... Cavalleria Rusticana (Rustic Chivalry) is an opera in one act by Pietro Mascagni to a libretto by Targioni-Tozzetti and Menasci, adapted from a short story by Giovanni Verga. ... Verismo is a style of Italian opera distinguished by often sordid or violent depictions of everyday life (especially life of the lower classes), as opposed to historical or mythological subjects. ... Pagliacci (The Clowns) is an opera in two acts and a prologue by Ruggiero Leoncavallo. ... Location within Italy Piazza della Scala Milan (Italian: Milano; Milanese dialect: Milán) is the main city in northern Italy, and is located in the plains of Lombardy, the most populated and developed of Italian regions. ... 1897 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Location within Italy Venice (Italian Venezia), the city of canals, is the capital of the region of Veneto and of the province of Venice, 45°26′ N 12°19′ E, population 271,663 (census estimate 2004-01-01). ... Geraldine Farrar Farrar as the title character in Manon Geraldine Farrar (February 28, 1882 – March 11, 1967) was an opera singer whose stage presence earned her a fanatic following of Gerryflappers in the early 20th century. ... The Metropolitan Opera is located at Lincoln Center in New York, New York. ...

Leoncavallo was the librettist for all of his own operas. Many considered him the greatest Italian librettist of his time after Boito. Libretto can also refer to a sub-notebook PC manufactured by Toshiba. ... Arrigo Boito (February 24, 1842 – June 10, 1918) was an Italian poet, novelist and composer, best known today for his opera libretti and his own opera, Mefistofele. ...

Leoncavallo died in Montecatini. Montecatini is a town in Tuscany, Italy. ...

Operas

• Pagliacci (May 21, 1892 Teatro Dal Verme, Milan)
• I Medici (9 Nov. 1893 Teatro Dal Verme, Milan) [first part of the trilogy Crepusculum - not completed ]
• Chatterton (10 March 1896 Teatro Argentina, Rome) [rev. of a work written in 1876 ]
• La Bohème (6 May 1897 Teatro La Fenice, Venice)
• Zazà (10 Nov. 1900 Teatro Lirico, Milan)
• Der Roland von Berlin (13 Dec. 1904 Deutsche Oper, Berlin)
• Maia (15 Jan. 1910 Teatro Costanzi, Rome)
• Gli Zingari (16 Sept. 1912 Hippodrome, London)
• Mimi Pinson (1913 Teatro Massimo, Palermo) [rev. of La Bohème]
• Edipo Re (13 Dec. 1920 Opera Theatre, Chicago)

Pagliacci (The Clowns) is an opera in two acts and a prologue by Ruggiero Leoncavallo. ... May 21 is the 141st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (142nd in leap years). ... 1892 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... A lyric opera in four acts was written by Ruggiero Leoncavallo. ...

Operettas

• La jeunesse de Figaro (1906, USA)
• Malbrouck (19 Jan. 1910 Teatro Nazionale, Rome)
• La reginetta delle rose (24 June 1912 Teatro Costanzi, Rome)
• Are you There? (1 Nov. 1913 Theatre Prince of Wales, London)
• La candidata (6 Feb. 1915 Teatro Nazionale, Rome)
• Prestami tua moglie (2 Sept. 1916 Casino delle Terme, Montecatini)
• Goffredo Mameli (27 April 1916 Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa)
• A chi la giarrettiera? (16 Oct. 1919 Teatro Adriano, Rome)
• Il primo bacio (29 April 1923 Salone di cura, Montecatini)
• La maschera nuda (26 June 1925 Teatro Politeama, Naples)