An Introduction to Leoncavallo: Pagliacci by Thomson Smillie

An Introduction to Leoncavallo: Pagliacci

Opera Explained

Thomson Smillie with David Timson (Narrator)

1 hour, 2 minutes first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction music
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 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 th...

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