Ruggero Leoncavallo

Ruggero Leoncavallo ( born April 23 1857 in Naples, † August 9, 1919 in Montecatini Terme) was an Italian composer and librettist. He became world famous through his verismo opera Pagliacci ( Pagliacci ).

Life

Leoncavallo was born the son of a judge in Naples and lived as a child with his family some years in the Calabrian town of Montalto Uffugo. He then returned to Naples, where he studied at the Conservatorio San Pietro a Majella. From 1882 to 1886 he lived in Paris, where the symphonic poem La nuit de mai was born. After several years as a teacher and unsuccessful attempts to bring several operas on stage, he experienced great success of 1890, Pietro Mascagni's opera Cavalleria rusticana with. He then composed his own verismo opera, Pagliacci, whose action goes back to a murder case which he witnessed in Calabria. It was premiered in 1892 in Milan and was an instant success; it is his only work that is part of the standard operatic repertoire today.

The following year his opera I Medici was produced in Milan, but gained neither these nor Chatterton (1896 ) - both operas of his early work - the audience's favor, which he only succeeded again with a performance of La Bohème in Venice 1897. Two tenor arias from this opera are still occasionally sung, especially in Italy. Other operas were Zazà (1900), The Roland von Berlin (1904) and Zingari (Gypsy, 1912), but which are no longer listed (except for the baritone aria from Zazà ). The opera Der Roland von Berlin ( Il Rolando di Berlino ) Leoncavallo wrote on behalf of the German Emperor, it was premiered in Berlin. Leoncavallo is considered by many to be the greatest Italian librettist of his time by Arrigo Boito.

On 8 April 1904, he played for the Gramophone & Typewriter Ltd.. its for this purpose composed a Mattinata, where he was to become the most important interpreters of Canio in I Pagliacci Enrico Caruso soon, accompanied on the piano. On December 8, 1905, he played for the Welte-Mignon reproducing piano as a pianist six own songs on the piano role.

His first grave was in Florence, today there is, however, in the portico in front of the church " Madonna di Ponte " in Brissago ( Switzerland ).

Works

  • Requiem unfinished

Operas

  • I Medici
  • Chatterton
  • La Bohème
  • Zazà
  • The Roland of Berlin
  • Pagliacci
  • Maia
  • Zingari
  • Mimi Pinson
  • Edipo Re
  • Goffredo Mameli

Operettas

  • La jeunesse de Figaro
  • Malbrouck
  • La reginetta delle rose, Teatro dell'Opera Rome and Naples Teatro Giacosa 1912 German premiere Theater Erfurt 2008
  • Are you There?
  • La candidata
  • Prestami tua moglie
  • A chi la giarrettiera?
  • Il primo bacio
  • La maschera nuda
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