Ricordi persuaded him to accept Ruggero Leoncavallo as his librettist, but Puccini soon asked Ricordi to remove him from the project.

* March 8 – Ruggero Leoncavallo, Italian composer ( d. 1919 )

Ruggero Leoncavallo, Postcard ( 1910 )

Ruggero ( or Ruggiero ) Giacomo Maria Giuseppe Emmanuele Raffaele Domenico Vincenzo Francesco Donato Leoncavallo (; 23 April 18579 August 1919 ) was an Italian opera composer.

Ruggero Leoncavallo died in Montecatini Terme, Tuscany, on 9 August 1919.

Ruggero Leoncavallo

Ruggero Leoncavallo nel suo tempo, Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi su Leoncavallo, Locarno 1991, Jürgen Maehder and Lorenza Guiot ( eds .).

" Leoncavallo, Ruggero ", The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera, 2nd Edition, pp. 278 – 279.

* Fondazione Ruggero Leoncavallo

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It has been assumed ( see The New Grove Dictionary of Opera ) that Leoncavallo left the opera more or less complete ( except for the orchestration ), but Pennacchio may have had to do more and may have " filled in the gaps " using Leoncavallo's earlier music.

Subsequent operas by Leoncavallo were in the 1900s: Zazà ( the opera of Geraldine Farrar's famous farewell performance at the Metropolitan Opera ), and 1904's Der Roland von Berlin.

* Italian Opera Arias: Arias by Broschi, Leoncavallo, Monteverdi, Paisiello and Rossini, with conductor Mario Bernardi, CBS 1978.

( Centro Sociale Occupato Autogestito, " self-governing squatter social centers ") and include: Leoncavallo, Cantiere, Cox 18, Cascina Torchiera, La Fucina, Vittoria, Transiti 28, Panetteria Occupata, Bottiglieria Occupata and Villa Vegan Squat in Milan, Telos in Saronno, Officina 99, SKA, Insurgencia, Cinema Astra Occupato and Terra Terra in Naples, Askatasuna, El Paso, Gabrio, Murazzi, la Boccia Squat, No way squat, Mezcal Squat, Asilo Squat and Barocchio Squat in Turin, Brancaleone, Corto Circuito, Forte Prenestino, La Strada, Acrobax, Spartaco, Torre Maura, Horus, L38 Laurentino Squat, ZK Squatt, Ateneo Occupato, Macchia Rossa and Villaggio Globale in Rome, Buridda, Pinelli, Terra Di Nessuno, Aut Aut 357 and Zapata in Genoa, Rivolta in Mestre, Gramigna and Pedro in Padua, La Chimica in Verona, Bruno in Trento, Dordoni in Cremona, Magazzino 47 in Brescia, Pacì Paciana in Bergamo, Barattolo in Pavia, CPA Firenze Sud, La Riottosa, Villa Panico and Next Emerson in Florence, Experia and Auro in Catania, Ex-Karcere in Palermo, Ex-Mattatoio in Perugia, Mario Lupo in Parma, la Scintilla in Modena, Mezza Canaja in Senigallia, Kontatto in Ancona, TNT in Jesi, Godzilla in Livorno, Rebeldia and Newroz in Pisa, Teatro Polivalente, Lazzaretto, XM24, Livello 57 and Crash in Bologna, Cartella in Reggio Calabria, Rialzo in Cosenza, Fiumara in Catanzaro, Cloro Rosso in Taranto and many others.

* August 9 – Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Italian composer ( b. 1857 )

Though it has been stated that Mascagni, like Leoncavallo, was a " one-opera man " who could never repeat his first success, this is inaccurate.

That year, he had disputes with Ruggiero Leoncavallo and Giacomo Puccini.

The son of a judge, Leoncavallo was born in Naples on 23 April 1857.

As child he moved with his father in the town of Montalto Uffugo in Calabria where Leoncavallo lived during his adolescence.

( According to Leoncavallo, the plot of this work had a real-life origin: he claimed it derived from a murder trial, in Montalto Uffugo, over which his father had presided.

Pagliacci was performed in Milan in 1892 with immediate success ; today it is the only work by Leoncavallo in the standard operatic repertory.

Leoncavallo himself conducts the performance or at very least supervises the production.

After a series of operettas, Leoncavallo tried for one last serious effort ( Edipo Re ), but he died before he could finish the orchestration, which was completed by Giovanni Pennacchio.

Unusually, Leoncavallo did not write the libretto.

Leoncavallo also composed songs, most famously Mattinata, which he wrote for the Gramophone Company ( which became HMV ) with Caruso's unique voice in mind.

On 8 April 1904, Leoncavallo accompanied Caruso at the piano as they recorded the song.

Leoncavallo was the librettist for most of his own operas.

( Note that the Fondazione Leoncavallo classes this as an opera rather than an operetta.

Leoncavallo: Life and Works, Scarecrow Press.