Verismo is also employed by musicologists to refer to a post-Romantic operatic tradition associated with Italian composers such as Pietro Mascagni, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Umberto Giordano and Giacomo Puccini.

He also had the distinction of participating in eight premiere performances of new or substantially refashioned operatic works by significant composers such as Verdi, Ponchielli and Leoncavallo.

Paoli was also the first operatic artist to record an entire opera when he participated in a performance of Pagliacci by Ruggiero Leoncavallo in Milan, Italy.

To his credit, Paoli was also the first opera singer in the world to record an entire opera when he participated in a performance of Pagliacci by Ruggiero Leoncavallo in Italy in 1907.

Ancona also undertook roles composed by Leoncavallo ( Silvio and Tonio ), Puccini ( Lescaut and Marcello ), Mascagni ( Alfio and David in L ' amico Fritz ), Giordano ( Gerard in Andrea Chénier ), Mozart ( Don Giovanni and Figaro ) and Wagner ( Wolfram, Telramund and even, on occasion, Hans Sachs ).

They consist of several songs as well as operatic arias and duets by Verdi, Bellini, Donizetti, Meyerbeer, Gounod, Bizet, Leoncavallo and Giordano.

Leoncavallo was the librettist for most of his own operas.

The most famous composers of Verismo opera, discounting Puccini, were Mascagni, Ruggero Leoncavallo ( whose Pagliacci is often coupled with Cavalleria ), Umberto Giordano, and Francesco Cilea.

Despite the relative obscurity of his name today, Perosi was a prominent member of the Giovane Scuola, of which the most important Verismo composers or Veristi ( Puccini, Mascagni, Leoncavallo, Giordano, and Cilea ) were all considered members.

* " La Mattinata " m. Ruggiero Leoncavallo

#" Mattinata " ( Ruggero Leoncavallo )

# Mattinata ( Ruggero Leoncavallo )

( 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.

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.

He was selected in 1907, as the First Tenor in the main character by a team of engineers and musicians which included Leoncavallo.

Leoncavallo wrote his opera La bohème contemporaneously with Giacomo Puccini's own treatment of the same story.

The group all had close connections with the Milan Conservatory and included Puccini, Mascagni, Leoncavallo, Giordano, Cilea, Catalani and Franchetti as well as non-operatic composers, such as Don Lorenzo Perosi, who wrote almost exclusively sacred music.

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.

He previously had considered writing a brief operatic piece about the friendship between Giacomo Puccini and Ruggiero Leoncavallo, going so far as to compose the melody that later would become " Memory " for it, but decided it wouldn't fit well with ' the girl's ' saga.

Although Otello was his best role, throughout his career, Del Monaco sang a number of other roles with great acclaim, for example: Canio in Pagliacci ( Leoncavallo ), Radames in Aida ( Verdi ), Don Jose in Carmen ( Bizet ), Chenier in Andrea Chénier ( Giordano ), Manrico in Il trovatore ( Verdi ), Samson in Samson and Delilah ( Saint-Saëns ), and Don Alvaro in La forza del destino ( Verdi ).

Leoncavallo claimed that he took the inspiration for the story of Pagliacci from a real-life incident from his childhood.

Mendès subsequently sued Leoncavallo for plagiarism.

The book is the basis for the operas La bohème ( Puccini ) and La bohème ( Leoncavallo ), and, at greater removes, the zarzuela Bohemios ( Amadeu Vives ), the operetta Das Veilchen vom Montmartre ( Kálmán ) and the Broadway musical Rent.

Ruggero Leoncavallo I Pagliacci ( Nedda ) – opera interpreted in première for Romania at Bucharest National Theatre in 1903 ;

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

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

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

In the verismo opera Pagliacci by Ruggiero Leoncavallo, the head troup's wife, Nedda, plays as Colombina, cheating on her husband both onstage with Arlecchino, and offstage with Silvio.

Pagliacci (; Players, or Clowns ) is an Italian opera in a prologue and two acts, with music and libretto by Ruggero Leoncavallo.

This incident resulted from a series of perceived romantic entanglements involving Scavello, Luigi D ' Alessandro, and a village girl with whom both men were infatuated .. Leoncavallo ' father, a judge, was the presiding magistrate over the criminal investigation.

Sansone has elaborated on the many parallels between the Mendès, Ferrier, and Pessard versions of the Tabarin story with Pagliacci, noting that Leoncavallo deliberately minimised any sort of connection between his opera and those earlier French works.

* Leoncavallo: Pagliacci / Puccini: Il tabarro ( Pagliacci: with Caballé, Domingo — Santi, cond.

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

La bohème is an Italian opera in four acts, with music and libretto by Ruggero Leoncavallo, based on Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger.

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

( 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 )

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Unusually, Leoncavallo did not write the libretto.

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

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

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

Leoncavallo: Life and Works, Scarecrow Press.

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

" Leoncavallo, Ruggero ", The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, pp. 1148 – 1149.