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Leoncavallo: Pagliacci / Slatkin, Domingo, Lanza, Villarroel

Leoncavallo / Domingo Release Date: 09/25/2012
Label: Kultur Video Catalog #: 4707
Composer:  Ruggero Leoncavallo Performer:  Manuel Lanza ,  Placido Domingo ,  Verónica Villarroel ,  David Cangelosi  ...  Conductor:  Leonard Slatkin Orchestra/Ensemble:  Washington National Opera Orchestra ,  Washington National Opera Chorus Number of Discs: 1
Length: 1 Hours 19 Mins.

Leoncavallo’s often-performed short opera uses the play-within-a play device to explore the classic operatic themes of passion, adultery, jealousy and revenge.

The great tenor aria, Vesti la giubba, expresses the anguish of the cuckolded husband who, as a performing clown, must make others laugh even as his heart is breaking.

Zeffirelli’s production is set in a contemporary urban environment, with fire eaters, children, animals, jugglers and acrobats.

Plácido Domingo, showing that he is arguably the finest actor-tenor of our time, gives a definitive performance as Canio.

Recorded live at the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Opera House in November 1997. Read more />
Region: All
Running Time: 79 minutes
Color: Color
Format: NTSC, 4.3 Full Screen, Dolby 5.0
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish Read less