Leoncavallo
Americannoun
noun
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The title of which opera composed by Ruggero Leoncavallo literally means Clowns?
From Slate ● Jul. 3, 2023
It was an inspired idea to pair “Aleko” and “Pagliacci,” both first heard in the spring of 1892 — the Rachmaninoff in Moscow, the Leoncavallo in Milan.
From New York Times ● Sep. 9, 2016
But Leoncavallo also gives us theatrical self-referentiality, a classic mise en abyme.
From The New Yorker ● May 4, 2015
Leoncavallo meant masked expressions to be unmasked by music.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2014
Leoncavallo, the composer and librettist, has since written another opera, "I Medici," which has found favor in Europe, but is still unheard in America.
From Stars of the Opera by Wagnalls, Mabel
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