Ruggero (or Ruggiero) Leoncavallo ( , , ; 23 April 18579 August 1919) was an Italian opera composer and librettist.
His other compositions include the song "Mattinata", popularized by Enrico Caruso, and the symphonic poem La Nuit de mai. ==Biography== The son of Vincenzo Leoncavallo, a police magistrate and judge, Leoncavallo was born in Naples on 23 April 1857.
(Revision of a work written in 1876.) La bohème – 6 May 1897, Teatro La Fenice, Venice. Zazà – 10 November 1900, Teatro Lirico, Milan. Der Roland von Berlin – 13 December 1904, Königliches Opernhaus, Berlin. Maïa – 15 January 1910, Teatro Costanzi, Rome. Zingari – 16 September 1912, Hippodrome, London. Mimi Pinson – 1913, Teatro Massimo, Palermo.
He later returned to Naples and was educated at the city's San Pietro a Majella Conservatory and later the University of Bologna studying literature under famed Italian poet Giosuè Carducci. In 1879 Leoncavallo's uncle Giuseppe, director of the press department at the Foreign Ministry in Egypt, suggested that his young nephew come to Cairo to showcase his pianistic abilities.
His time in Egypt concluded abruptly in 1882 after revolts in Alexandria and Cairo led by ‘Urabi in which the composer quickly departed for France.
The work was completed in Paris in 1886 and premiered in April 1887 to critical acclaim.
Produced after the composer's death. ==Other works== La nuit de mai – poème symphonique for tenor and orchestra after Alfred de Musset, Paris 1886 (also performed and recorded in 1990 and – with Plácido Domingo – in 2010) Séraphitus Séraphita – Poema Sinfonico after Honoré de Balzac, Teatro alla Scala, Milan 1894 ==Bibliography== Dryden, Konrad (2007).
The work was completed in Paris in 1886 and premiered in April 1887 to critical acclaim.
In 1890 he saw the enormous success of Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana and wasted no time in producing his own verismo work, Pagliacci.
(According to Leoncavallo, the plot of this work had a real-life origin: he claimed it derived from a murder trial, in Montalto Uffugo, over which his father had presided.) Pagliacci was performed in Milan in 1892 with immediate success; today it is the only work by Leoncavallo in the standard operatic repertory.
Among Leoncavallo's libretti for other composers is his contribution to the libretto for Puccini's Manon Lescaut. ==Operas== Pagliacci – 21 May 1892, Teatro Dal Verme, Milan. I Medici – 9 November 1893, Teatro Dal Verme, Milan).
Among Leoncavallo's libretti for other composers is his contribution to the libretto for Puccini's Manon Lescaut. ==Operas== Pagliacci – 21 May 1892, Teatro Dal Verme, Milan. I Medici – 9 November 1893, Teatro Dal Verme, Milan).
Produced after the composer's death. ==Other works== La nuit de mai – poème symphonique for tenor and orchestra after Alfred de Musset, Paris 1886 (also performed and recorded in 1990 and – with Plácido Domingo – in 2010) Séraphitus Séraphita – Poema Sinfonico after Honoré de Balzac, Teatro alla Scala, Milan 1894 ==Bibliography== Dryden, Konrad (2007).
It was during this time that he met Berthe Rambaud (1869–1926) a "preferred student", who became his wife in 1895.
However, it was outshone by Puccini's opera of the same name and on the same subject, which was premiered in 1896.
(The first part of the uncompleted trilogy, Crepusculum.) Chatterton – 10 March 1896, Teatro Argentina, Rome.
Leoncavallo himself conducts the performance or at very least supervises the production. It was not until Leoncavallo's La bohème was performed in 1897 in Venice that his talent obtained public confirmation.
(Revision of a work written in 1876.) La bohème – 6 May 1897, Teatro La Fenice, Venice. Zazà – 10 November 1900, Teatro Lirico, Milan. Der Roland von Berlin – 13 December 1904, Königliches Opernhaus, Berlin. Maïa – 15 January 1910, Teatro Costanzi, Rome. Zingari – 16 September 1912, Hippodrome, London. Mimi Pinson – 1913, Teatro Massimo, Palermo.
Two tenor arias from Leoncavallo's version are still occasionally performed, especially in Italy. Subsequent operas by Leoncavallo were in the 1900s: Zazà (the opera of Geraldine Farrar's famous 1922 farewell performance at the Metropolitan Opera), and 1904's Der Roland von Berlin.
(Revision of a work written in 1876.) La bohème – 6 May 1897, Teatro La Fenice, Venice. Zazà – 10 November 1900, Teatro Lirico, Milan. Der Roland von Berlin – 13 December 1904, Königliches Opernhaus, Berlin. Maïa – 15 January 1910, Teatro Costanzi, Rome. Zingari – 16 September 1912, Hippodrome, London. Mimi Pinson – 1913, Teatro Massimo, Palermo.
Two tenor arias from Leoncavallo's version are still occasionally performed, especially in Italy. Subsequent operas by Leoncavallo were in the 1900s: Zazà (the opera of Geraldine Farrar's famous 1922 farewell performance at the Metropolitan Opera), and 1904's Der Roland von Berlin.
Leoncavallo became an honorary citizen of Brissago and owned a lavish summer residence, Villa Myriam, in the town; in 1904 the composer had mentioned in a speech that he would not mind having a resting place in the town's Madonna di Porte cemetery, but it was never a written request in his will.
On 8 April 1904, Leoncavallo accompanied Caruso at the piano as they recorded the song.
(Revision of a work written in 1876.) La bohème – 6 May 1897, Teatro La Fenice, Venice. Zazà – 10 November 1900, Teatro Lirico, Milan. Der Roland von Berlin – 13 December 1904, Königliches Opernhaus, Berlin. Maïa – 15 January 1910, Teatro Costanzi, Rome. Zingari – 16 September 1912, Hippodrome, London. Mimi Pinson – 1913, Teatro Massimo, Palermo.
On 8 December 1905 he recorded five of his own pieces for the reproducing piano Welte-Mignon. Leoncavallo was the librettist for most of his own operas.
In 1906 the composer brought singers and orchestral musicians from La Scala to perform concerts of his music in New York, as well as an extensive tour of the United States.
Much of Chatterton, however, was recorded by the Gramophone Company (later HMV) as early as 1908, and remastered on CD almost 100 years later by Marston Records.
(Revision of a work written in 1876.) La bohème – 6 May 1897, Teatro La Fenice, Venice. Zazà – 10 November 1900, Teatro Lirico, Milan. Der Roland von Berlin – 13 December 1904, Königliches Opernhaus, Berlin. Maïa – 15 January 1910, Teatro Costanzi, Rome. Zingari – 16 September 1912, Hippodrome, London. Mimi Pinson – 1913, Teatro Massimo, Palermo.
He had a brief success with Zingari which premiered in Italian in London in 1912, with a long run at the Hippodrome Theatre.
(Revision of a work written in 1876.) La bohème – 6 May 1897, Teatro La Fenice, Venice. Zazà – 10 November 1900, Teatro Lirico, Milan. Der Roland von Berlin – 13 December 1904, Königliches Opernhaus, Berlin. Maïa – 15 January 1910, Teatro Costanzi, Rome. Zingari – 16 September 1912, Hippodrome, London. Mimi Pinson – 1913, Teatro Massimo, Palermo.
(Revision of a work written in 1876.) La bohème – 6 May 1897, Teatro La Fenice, Venice. Zazà – 10 November 1900, Teatro Lirico, Milan. Der Roland von Berlin – 13 December 1904, Königliches Opernhaus, Berlin. Maïa – 15 January 1910, Teatro Costanzi, Rome. Zingari – 16 September 1912, Hippodrome, London. Mimi Pinson – 1913, Teatro Massimo, Palermo.
(Revision of La bohème.) Mameli – 27 April 1916, Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa.
(English title: Lend me your wife.) Goffredo Mameli – 27 April 1916, Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa. A chi la giarrettiera? – 16 October 1919, Teatro Adriano, Rome.
Ruggero (or Ruggiero) Leoncavallo ( , , ; 23 April 18579 August 1919) was an Italian opera composer and librettist.
Dryden didn't find one reference to the opera in Leoncavallo’s correspondence nor is there a single note by him to be found in the handwritten score." Pennacchio may either have concocted the opera or may have had to do more to Leoncavallo's more or less complete work to "fill in the gaps" using Leoncavallo's earlier music. ===Death and legacy=== Leoncavallo died in Montecatini Terme, Tuscany, on 9 August 1919.
(English title: Lend me your wife.) Goffredo Mameli – 27 April 1916, Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa. A chi la giarrettiera? – 16 October 1919, Teatro Adriano, Rome.
(Note that the Fondazione Leoncavallo classes this as an opera rather than an operetta.) Edipo re – 13 December 1920, Chicago Opera.
Two tenor arias from Leoncavallo's version are still occasionally performed, especially in Italy. Subsequent operas by Leoncavallo were in the 1900s: Zazà (the opera of Geraldine Farrar's famous 1922 farewell performance at the Metropolitan Opera), and 1904's Der Roland von Berlin.
(English title: Whose Garter Is This?) Produced after the composer's death. Il primo bacio – 29 April 1923 Salone di cura, Montecatini.
Produced after the composer's death. La maschera nuda – 26 June 1925 Teatro Politeama, Naples.
The body was exhumed for transfer to Switzerland along with the remains of his wife Berthe, who died in 1926. The Museo Leoncavallo (Leoncavallo Museum) was established in 2002 in Brissago to commemorate the composer.
Produced after the composer's death. ==Other works== La nuit de mai – poème symphonique for tenor and orchestra after Alfred de Musset, Paris 1886 (also performed and recorded in 1990 and – with Plácido Domingo – in 2010) Séraphitus Séraphita – Poema Sinfonico after Honoré de Balzac, Teatro alla Scala, Milan 1894 ==Bibliography== Dryden, Konrad (2007).
Atti del I° Convegno Internazionale di Studi su Leoncavallo a Locarno 1991, Milan (Sonzogno) 1993. Jürgen Maehder/Lorenza Guiot (eds.), Letteratura, musica e teatro al tempo di Ruggero Leoncavallo.
Atti del I° Convegno Internazionale di Studi su Leoncavallo a Locarno 1991, Milan (Sonzogno) 1993. Jürgen Maehder/Lorenza Guiot (eds.), Letteratura, musica e teatro al tempo di Ruggero Leoncavallo.
Atti del II° Convegno Internazionale di Studi su Leoncavallo a Locarno 1993, Milan (Sonzogno) 1995. Jürgen Maehder/Lorenza Guiot (eds.), Nazionalismo e cosmopolitismo nell'opera tra '800 e '900.
Atti del II° Convegno Internazionale di Studi su Leoncavallo a Locarno 1993, Milan (Sonzogno) 1995. Jürgen Maehder/Lorenza Guiot (eds.), Nazionalismo e cosmopolitismo nell'opera tra '800 e '900.
Atti del III° Convegno Internazionale di Studi su Leoncavallo a Locarno 1995, Milan (Sonzogno) 1998. Jürgen Maehder/Lorenza Guiot (eds.), Tendenze della musica teatrale italiana all'inizio del Novecento.
Atti del III° Convegno Internazionale di Studi su Leoncavallo a Locarno 1995, Milan (Sonzogno) 1998. Jürgen Maehder/Lorenza Guiot (eds.), Tendenze della musica teatrale italiana all'inizio del Novecento.
Atti del IV° Convegno Internazionale di Studi su Leoncavallo a Locarno 1998, Milan (Sonzogno) 2005. Rosenthal, H.
The body was exhumed for transfer to Switzerland along with the remains of his wife Berthe, who died in 1926. The Museo Leoncavallo (Leoncavallo Museum) was established in 2002 in Brissago to commemorate the composer.
Atti del IV° Convegno Internazionale di Studi su Leoncavallo a Locarno 1998, Milan (Sonzogno) 2005. Rosenthal, H.
Produced after the composer's death. ==Other works== La nuit de mai – poème symphonique for tenor and orchestra after Alfred de Musset, Paris 1886 (also performed and recorded in 1990 and – with Plácido Domingo – in 2010) Séraphitus Séraphita – Poema Sinfonico after Honoré de Balzac, Teatro alla Scala, Milan 1894 ==Bibliography== Dryden, Konrad (2007).
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