The Advocate

If you don't know the name, you will know the music when Opera Louisiane stages 'Pagliacci'

Paul Groves was a child when he first heard that classic, mournful tenor aria usually sung by a clown on opera stages. The song — specifically one of its passages — is usually recognized even by those ...
BroadwayWorld

Florida Grand Opera Returns To Its Roots With A Specially Expanded Production Of Leoncavallo's I PAGLIACCI

I pagliacci (The Clowns) was written in 1892 and premiered the same year at the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan. Inspired by the success of Pietro Mascagni's 1890 opera, Cavalleria rusticana, and the new ...
Rutland Herald

Opera Vermont’s ‘Pagliacci’: Unique collaboration of opera and circus

"I Pagliacci” or “The Clowns,” set in a traveling circus, is one of the most popular of opera tragedies, full of irresistible music. Ruggero Leoncavallo’s 1892 dramatic tale — he wrote the libretto ...
Sun Sentinel

Florida Grand Opera brings ‘I Pagliacci’ to Broward Center, with tenor Limmie Pulliam in the spotlight

Tenor Limmie Pulliam has the iconic role of the clown Canio in Florida Grand Opera’s production of Ruggero Leoncavallo’s “I Pagliacci” — and he agrees with the assessment of great singers before him, ...