The Bell Chorus takes place after the troupe of actors arrive in Calabria in Pagliacci. The bells signify that the vespers service is about to begin, but for the town's youth, also ushers in the roman...
Ruggiero Leoncavallo was an Italian opera composer and librettist. Although he would produce numerous operas and other songs throughout his career it is his two-act work Pagliacci (1892) and the song...
Ever since its first performance in Milan 1892, Pagliacci has wowed audiences and become a classic example of the Italian Verismo school of Operatic realism. This is the full score of Ruggiero Leonca...
Ruggiero Leoncavallo's I Pagliacci was his first opera to be performed. The text, by the composer, is based on one of the cases encountered by Leoncavallo's father, a police magistrate in Naples. The...
Chorus Parts
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Italian/English. Translated by Machlis.
