Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Naxos : Made available through hoopla, 2004
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (1hr., 01 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9781843793250 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT11137470, 1843793253 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 11137470
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Narrated by David Timson
Pagliacci may be the most completely compelling short opera in the repertory and owes much of its impact to a brilliant story based, it is said, on true life and told through the device of a play-within-a-play. The action is set in Calabria in the deep south of Italy where the jealousies and illicit passions of a troupe of strolling actors precisely intersect with the play they are performing - to both touching and tragic effect. Leoncavallo was his own librettist, and his literary skills, allied to great melodic creativity, guarantee that in its two short acts Pagliacci - 'Clowns' - delivers an overwhelming emotional experience
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