The clown in striped pants, white smock and painted face is one of the most recognizable figures in opera. "I Pagliacci" ("The Clowns"), from which the character is taken, is equally famous. Of the ...

Spokane Opera celebrated its silver anniversary with a vibrant, steamy production of Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci” Friday at The Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox. There were those in Friday’s audience, ...

A single cast was announced Aug. 24 for "I Pagliacci (The Clowns)," which opens the 20th season of Opera in the Heights Sept. 18 at Lambert Hall. The 1892 "comic thriller" by Ruggero Leoncavallo will ...

San Diego Opera kicked off its 2025-26 season on Halloween night, where many audience members at the San Diego Civic Theatre showed up in costume, and horror movie-style drama unfolded onstage in ...

GRAND RAPIDS -- Tenor John Horton Murray will be on stage this weekend, as the unhappy clown singing the aria "Vesti la giubba" in If you've seen a lot of movies or watch a lot of TV, you've probably ...

‘I Pagliacci,” Ruggiero Leoncavallo’s tragic tale of adultery and revenge set to glorious music, remains one of the most popular operas since its 1892 premiere. Still, a new adaptation enjoys all ...

3 Review: JETTE PARKER ARTISTS: TALES OF LOVE AND LOSS, Royal Ballet And Opera Joelle Zigman of CultureMap.com recently reviewed the same production of PAGLIACCI that I had the great pleasure of ...

When it comes to challenging operatic roles for tenors, the clown troupe leader Canio in Leoncavallo Ruggero’s beloved 1892 “Pagliacci” is right up there. It requires power-singing, vocal range and ...

Life and art are invariably intertwined, but seldom as closely as in the opera “Pagliacci” (Clowns). Ruggero Leoncavallo’s opera about fatal jealousies in a traveling troupe of actors was based on a ...