LEONCAVALLO: I Pagliacci

Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra;
Rahbari, Alexander;
Dvorský, Miroslav;
Tumagian, Eduard;
Gauci, Miriam;
Martinucci, Nicola;
Slovak Philharmonic Chorus;
Skovhus, Boje

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Pagliacci remains Leoncavallo's most considerable achievement. It came at a time when verismo, realism, often of a generally sordid kind, had seized the imagination of the public, and is a successful example of a genre that produced a number of contemporary operatic disasters, whatever their passing commercial appeal. Music and text are dramatic and even histrionic in a tragedy of jealousy expressed in the starkest terms. After its first successful staging in Milan in May 1892 it was mounted at Covent Garden in May the following years and in June 1893 at the Grand Opera House in New York.

CD

Muzyka klasyczna

Naxos

13-10-1992

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