Leoncavallo

American  

[le-awn-kah-vahl-law] / lɛˌɔn kɑˈvɑl lɔ /

noun

1. Ruggiero 1858–1919, Italian operatic composer and librettist.

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Leoncavallo British  

/ leoŋkaˈvallo /

noun

1. Ruggiero (rudˈdʒɛːro). 1858–1919, Italian composer of operas, notably I Pagliacci (1892)

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Example Sentences

The title of which opera composed by Ruggero Leoncavallo literally means Clowns?

From Slate • Jul. 3, 2023

“Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci” Filmed for theatrical release, the Royal Opera’s Olivier Award-winning 2017 staging of these two oft-paired one-act tragedies — by Mascagni and Leoncavallo, respectively — premieres on the streaming service Marquee TV.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2020

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

It seems as if Leoncavallo said to himself, "Mascagni gave 'em a novelty in his intermezzo; I'll give 'em something new in the shape of a prologue."

From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, May 27, 1893 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir