For Summer 2024, Seattle Opera will present PAGLIACCI, by Ruggero Leoncavallo, a masterpiece of Italian opera all about lust and jealousy, passion and murder; a show about reality and artifice, comedy and tragedy, freedom and fate. (It’s not about pizza.) Seattle Opera Dramaturg Jonathan Dean introduces PAGLIACCI with musical examples from Seattle Opera’s 2008 archival recording, conducted by Dean Williamson and starring Antonello Palombi as Canio, Nuccia Focile as Nedda, Morgan Smith as Silvio, Gordon Hawkins as Tonio, and Doug Jones as Beppe. Special musical examples feature Enrico Caruso, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, and Queen, with Freddie Mercury.

PAGLIACCI 101

me vê uma pop 110i aí meu parcero. não, precisa de retrovisor não. Ou mas caralho tem umas furadeira pica aí ein, mermão onde que tu achout makita power ranger azul fudida com bateria estourada? relíquia

eis que tu entrou na feira do rolo

'Söz uçar yazı kalır... Müzik zaten hep oradadır.' demiş ünlü düşünür Zone2222.

Ne dediyse kulak veriyoruz!
Bittabi dediği ile yaptığı bir olan örnek seyls meneeeycırımız'ın yolu bahtı açık olsun, S'ler her yerini sararken ülkenin 4bir yanından 24/6'ya akan K'ları eksik olmasın.

'Artsın eksilmesin taşsın dökülmesin' kod adlı duamızı kendisinden asla esirgemiyoruz!

G(Sol) Majör'ler e(mi) minör'lere bağlansın, yollarımız ayrı düşmesin hayatım.
>>> Yanlız, G Majör dominantına denk gelen aksan'a ammman dikkat, vurgu orda biraz fazla olduğunda akor bazen sharp tınlıyor, ton sür ton denilen şey böyle durumlarda değil sosyal bilimlerde geçerli; müzik ise mevzuu bahis: olaylar ton dışına çıkılabiliyor.

eEeEe Tabbbbii dostlar sağolsun, hemen doğru ses basılır tona bağlanılır... abartmayalım. (kiss)

Tracklist
Also sprach Zarathustra, I.Prelude.Sonnenaufgang - Richard Strauss
Gretchen am Spinnrade, D.118 - Franz Schubert
Violin concerto no.2, II.Andante - Bela Bartok
Pagliacci / Act 1: ''Recitar!...Vesti la giubba'' - Ruggero Leoncavallo
String Quartet no.4 in c minor, IV. Allegro - Ludwig van Beethoven
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 14 - Franz Liszt
Symphony No. 3, V. Lustig im tempo und keck im Ausdruck - Gustav Mahler

Transition to

Magnificat in D Major, III. Quia respexit humilitatem - J. S. Bach
Symphony No. 8 in c minor, IV. Finale. Feierlich, nicht schnell - Anton Bruckner
Piano Concerto No. 2, III. Presto - Camille Saint Saens
Les Contes d'Hoffmann, Act I: Va pour Kleinzach! - Jacques Offenbach
Cello Concerto in a minor, III.Sehr lebhaft - Robert Schumann
Tannhauser: Pilgerchor - Richard Wagner
Piano Sonata No. 5 in F Sharp Major - Alexander Scriabin

BIS:
Rigoletto, Act 1: ''Gualtier Malde...Caro nome'' - Giuseppe Verdi

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Diego Torre makes his Seattle Opera debut singing Canio in PAGLIACCI. The Mexican-born tenor lives in Sydney, Australia, where he often sings at Opera Australia. At the strange performance of the show-within-a-show that concludes PAGLIACCI, the audience cheers his speech guilt-tripping his wife for cheating on him; they don’t realize that he isn’t acting. “Love so blinded me, I hoped that if you didn’t love me, at least you could take pity. I demanded of myself every sacrifice. I believed in you more than I believed in God! But your soul is rotten at the core. You have no heart—only a body, burning with lust. You are not worth this pain. You’re nothing but vulgar trash.” “Bravo!” Carlo Montanaro conducts Diego Torre, Monica Conesa, and the chorus and orchestra of Seattle Opera. Photo by Philip Newton.

DIEGO TORRE as Canio

Tenor John Marzano returns to Seattle Opera to sing Beppe/Harlequin in PAGLIACCI. As the likeable clown Harlequin, Marzano sings a pretty little serenade to Colombina in the show-within-a-show, pizzicato strings standing in for the sound of his prop lute, before that show-within-a-show goes completely off the rails. Carlo Montanaro conducts the orchestra of Seattle Opera. Photo by Sunny Martini.

JOHN MARZANO as Harlequin

Monica Conesa as Nedda and Michael J. Hawk as Silvio blend their voices in the supremely steamy love duet at the center of PAGLIACCI. The two are at pains to figure out where their relationship is going: Silvio wants Nedda to leave her husband, the jealous and violent Canio, and start a new life with him. But she is unsure what to do. Carlo Montanaro conducts the orchestra of Seattle Opera. Photo by Sunny Martini.

PAGLIACCI Love Duet

Baritone Michael Chioldi returns to Seattle to sing Prologue/Tonio/Taddeo in PAGLIACCI.  As Tonio he declares his love for Nedda (while her husband is at the bar), saying that “Even though everyone thinks I’m ugly and ridiculous I have a loving heart, I desire love the same as everyone else.” When she rejects him with mocking laughter, love turns into hate—and the horrifying conclusion becomes inevitable. Carlo Montanaro conducts the orchestra of Seattle Opera. Photo by Sunny Martini.

MICHAEL CHIOLDI as Tonio

Fresh off his Seattle Opera debut (as Fiorello in THE BARBER OF SILVIO) baritone Michael J. Hawk sings Silvio in PAGLIACCI. This hot young village stud romances Nedda, wife of Canio, when she returns to his village: "Why did you bewitch me only to abandon me without mercy? Why give me your kiss with such scorching passion? Even if you’ve forgotten what happened between us, I can’t, I want to experience such love again." Carlo Montanaro conducts the orchestra of Seattle Opera. Photo by Philip Newton

MICHAEL J. HAWK as Silvio

Soprano Monica Conesa makes her US and Seattle debuts as Nedda in PAGLIACCI. In the wild love duet from Act One she reassures Silvio that she hasn't forgotten him: "The love in your eyes still captivates me. I want to see that look always, that look that binds me to you. I give myself to you, you alone rule over me. I take all of you, and abandon myself…" Carlo Montanaro conducts the orchestra of Seattle Opera. Photo by Philip Newton.

Monica Conesa as Nedda

Soprano Monica Conesa, a native of Florida, makes her US and Seattle debuts as Nedda in PAGLIACCI. Trapped in a marriage to a man she does not love, Nedda in the aria “Stridono lassù” idealizes the freedom of the birds, who can “wander the roads of heaven, follow a fantasy, and disappear amid golden clouds.” Carlo Montanaro conducts the orchestra of Seattle Opera. Photo by Philip Newton.

MONICA CONESA sings Nedda's aria

Diego Torre makes his Seattle Opera debut singing Canio in PAGLIACCI. At the center of the show he sings one of the most affecting arias ever written, the cry of a clown whose heart is breaking: “Put on your costume and white-face; the people paid, they want to laugh. And if Harlequin steals your Columbina, laugh, Pagliaccio, and everyone will applaud. Turn your anguish and tears into jokes; into a silly face your heartbreak and sorrow. Laugh, Pagliaccio, laugh at your shattered life. Laugh at the misery which is poisoning your heart.” Carlo Montanaro conducts the orchestra of Seattle Opera. Photo by Philip Newton.

DIEGO TORRE sings “Vesti la giubba”

The audience for the show-within-a-show, in Act 2 of PAGLIACCI, grows rowdy and impatient waiting for the curtain to go up. When a performer rings a bell to indicate it’s (finally) time to begin, the audience all scream “Silenzio!” (Silence) at each other, seemingly reluctant to follow their own advice. Carlo Montanaro conducts the orchestra of Seattle Opera. Photo by Philip Newton.

PAGLIACCI: “On with the show!”

You've heard the aria and you've seen the iconic sad commedia clown face. Now join Jeff and Carol as they look beyond the greasepaint into the bleeding heart of Ruggero Leoncavallo's visceral opera. 

Episode 9.10 - Leoncavallo's Pagliacci Prelude

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