This was a style introduced by Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana and Ruggiero Leoncavallo's Pagliacci that came virtually to dominate the world's opera stages with such popular works as Giacomo Puccini's La bohème, Tosca, and Madama Butterfly.

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

Shortly after this performance, the court produced Francesca Caccini's opera La liberazione di Ruggiero dall ' isola d ’ Alcina, which she had written for Prince Władysław three years earlier when he was in Italy.

In 1973, after Carlo Gambino's nephew Emanuel Gambino was kidnapped and murdered, John Gotti was assigned to the hit team alongside Ruggiero and Ralph Galione for the main suspect, Irish-American gangster James McBratney.

When the terminally ill Ruggiero was severed and released in 1989, Gotti refused to contact him, blaming him for the Gambino's misfortunes.

He was killed treacherously by Aegisthus, but his wife escaped to Reggio and bore a son ( Polidoro ), from whom the epic hero Ruggiero is descended ( III, v, 18-27 ).

In this tradition, the epic hero Roland's sword Durendal was the very sword used by Hector, and Roland wins the sword by defeating a Saracen knight ( almonte, the son of Agolant ) who had defeated Ruggiero II.

However, the most immediate concern was a set of government surveillance tapes that featured mobster Angelo Ruggiero discussing heroin trafficking.

Eventually, one of the reasons for Gotti's killing Castellano was to save his brother and Ruggiero.

When Castellano was indicted for both his connection to Roy DeMeo's stolen car ring and as part of the Mafia Commission Trial, he learned his own house had been bugged on the basis of evidence from the Ruggiero tapes and he became livid.

Gravano arrived to find only Ruggiero was present.

He was forced to rely heavily on Gravano, Angelo Ruggiero, and Joseph " Piney " Armone to manage the family's day-to-day affairs while he called the major shots from his jail cell.

In June, Gravano was approached by Ruggiero and, supposedly at Gotti's behest, given orders to murder capo Robert DiBernardo for making negative remarks about Gotti's leadership.

Gravano later learned that Ruggiero was $ 250, 000 in debt to DiBernardo and realized Ruggiero may have fabricated the orders from Gotti or simply lied to Gotti about what DiBernardo was accused of saying in order to erase the debt and improve his own standing in the family.

He started out as co-underboss with Ruggiero and later was shifted to co-consigliere with Armone.

With the premiere of Piramo e Tisbe ( September 1768 ) Hasse had intended to retire from opera but was compelled by Maria Theresa to compose a further work, Ruggiero ( 1771 ), again set to a Metastasian libretto.

Italy retained a Romantic operatic musical tradition in the early 20th century, exemplified by composers of the so-called Giovane Scuola, whose music was anchored in the previous century, including Arrigo Boito, Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Pietro Mascagni, and Francesco Cilea.

Important influences on Collingwood were the Italian Idealists Croce, Gentile and Guido de Ruggiero, the last of whom was also a close friend.

He was a John Gotti ally and a former drug dealing partner of Angelo Ruggiero and Arnold Squitieri.

A notable parallel occurs when Ruggiero is summoned to what he knows will be his execution for allowing Pistone into the Mafia ( in reality, Ruggiero was arrested by the FBI ).

When Ruggiero, also under indictment, had his bail revoked for his abrasive behavior in preliminary hearings, a frustrated Gotti instead promoted Joseph Armone to underboss.

The heroin trial of Gotti's former fellow Bergin crewmembers Ruggiero and Gene Gotti also commenced in June of that year.

According to Gravano, Gotti also considered murdering Ruggiero and when he finally died " I literally had to drag him to the funeral.

* Ruggiero ( also known as Rogero in older translations )

Another neighbor, Ronald Ruggiero, also heard the shots and said that when he looked from his window he saw Alfred Bello running west on Lafayette Street toward 16th Street.

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.

Benjamin " Lefty " Ruggiero, who helped Pistone formally become a Bonanno associate, was also targeted, but was arrested en route to the meeting where he was expected to be murdered.

Gotti ’ s association with three mobsters is also highlighted in the film: a father-son like relationship with family Underboss Aniello “ Mr. Neil ” Dellacroce, his deep but rocky friendship with Gotti crew member and longtime friend Angelo Ruggiero, and the respect and ultimate frustration that he felt for the man who became his Underboss, Salvatore “ Sammy the Bull ” Gravano.

Exclusive celebrity covers have also included musicians Lady Gaga, Blake McGrath, Joel Gibb, Neko Case and Hawksley Workman, actors Kate Moennig, Scott Thompson, Cheyenne Jackson and Adamo Ruggiero, and local activists George Hislop and Brent Hawkes.

In addition, since her brother Bill Ruggiero also played for the Oilers, they were the first brother-sister combination to play professionally at the same time.

Benjamin Ruggiero, also known as " Lefty ", " Lefty Guns ", and " Lefty Two Guns " ( April 19, 1926 – November 24, 1994 ), was a soldier in the Bonanno crime family.

Guest performers and conductors during the coming season will include many renowned artists who began their careers playing with the orchestra, including violinists Yehudi Menuhin, Isaac Stern, Ruggiero Ricci and David Abel ; ;

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

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.

After leaving school he devoted himself to working with the mafia-associated Fulton-Rockaway Boys gang, where he met and befriended fellow future Gambino mobsters Angelo Ruggiero and Wilfred " Willie Boy " Johnson.

Together with his brother Gene and Ruggiero, Gotti carried out truck hijackings at Idlewild Airport ( subsequently renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport ).

When the government released a set of these tapes to Ruggiero's attorney, Castellano demanded that Ruggiero provide him with copies.

Rodomonte appears at the wedding feast and accuses him of being a traitor to the Saracen cause, and the poem ends with Ruggiero slaying Rodomonte in single combat.

DiBernardo informed him that Gotti and Ruggiero wanted to meet with him in Queens.

Ruggiero claimed to have met again with Gotti and told Gravano that the boss wanted DiBernardo killed right away.

A recording of the concerto released by Ruggiero Ricci has been coupled with Ricci's recordings of sixteen different cadenzas.

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.

Mara suffered a stroke late in 2001 while visiting Port Vila, Vanuatu, with two of his longtime friends, businessmen Hari Punja and Joe Ruggiero.

* Interview with the Slackers ' singer Vic Ruggiero about the album Self Medication ( 2008 )

The most famous female doctor and medical author at the school is Trotula or Trotula de Ruggiero who is accredited with several books on gynaecology and cosmetics, collectively known as The Trotula.

Beginning with issue No. 6 ( Sept. 2010 ), the title began being written by Duane Swierczynski, with artwork by Manuel Garcia and Lorenzo Ruggiero.

Many of Sonny Black's character traits, and relationship with Pistone, were combined with other Bonanno mobsters like Anthony Mirra and Benjamin Ruggiero, who in the film is played by Al Pacino.

* Händel: Alcina ( September 2007 ) -- As Ruggiero with Ivor Bolton from Bavarian State Opera

For both, this was their final James Bond script, as Maibaum died in 1991 and Wilson ceased writing, although Wilson technically went on to outline the next film in the series with Alfonse Ruggiero that was eventually scrapped due to internal legal wranglings between Eon Productions and MGM ( the following film, GoldenEye being a completely different story written by Michael France ).

From November 14, 2002 to November 18, 2004 Frattini served as Foreign Minister: the appointment of Frattini followed ten months of interim by Berlusconi himself, after the resignation of the forme FM Renato Ruggiero due to his contrasts with the foreign policies of the government.