San Diego Opera opened its 2025-26 season on a Halloween night with an appropriately disturbing opera about a murderous clown ...

Two 90-minute operas with the same directors give some one-hit wonders a grand if occasionally formal double bill.

“Pagliacci” may be best known for Canio’s first-act aria, but its sprightly overture is also instantly recognizable. The ...

Just ask tenor Jonathan Burton, who has become one of America’s leading Canios, with 13 productions already under his belt.

At least once every season, Petaluma's Cinnabar Theater stages a classic opera. This year, the company decided to send in the clown -- not just any clown, but the crown prince of clowns. Ruggero ...

Passion, betrayal, and heartbreak blaze across the stage when Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci come to Lyric Opera of Chicago ...

In composer Leoncavallo’s nineteenth-century Italy, the fate of indiscreet wives fell under the legal doctrine of honor ...

"I Pagliacci” or “The Clowns,” set in a traveling circus, is one of the most popular of opera tragedies, full of irresistible music. Ruggero Leoncavallo’s 1892 dramatic tale — he wrote the libretto ...

"Pagliacci" was a hit when it premiered in Milan in 1892. With its beautiful musical score - including a killer aria for tenor - and a skillful libretto filled with painful human emotions and a ...

Ask the average Seattleite what they think of when they hear the word pagliacci and they’re almost guaranteed to answer “pizza”—or, maybe, “class action lawsuit.” One hundred years ago, though, the ...

Tenor Limmie Pulliam has the iconic role of the clown Canio in Florida Grand Opera’s production of Ruggero Leoncavallo’s “I Pagliacci” — and he agrees with the assessment of great singers before him, ...