Ruggero Leoncavallo – Pagliacci / Oedipus Rex

Ruggero Leoncavallo’s first and last opera
(Naples, April 23, 1857 – Montecatini Terme, August 19, 1919)

Pagliacci
Opera in a prologue and two acts by ruggero leoncavallo

Characters and performers
Nedda (Colombina) Elisa Balbo | Canio (Pagliaccio) Samuele Simoncini
Tonio (Taddeo) Giuseppe Altomare | Beppe (Arlecchino) Didier Pieri
Silvio Nicolò Ayroldi

Orchestra cupiditas
conductor pietro mazzetti
Harmonia cantata choir
choir director Raffaele Puccianti
Valdinievole music academy treble voicechoir
treble voicechoir director Michela Masini
Costumes: Cerratelli foundation
Performed in semi-staged form by Lorenzo Lenzi

Oedipus re
Opera in one act. music by Ruggero Leoncavallo
Libretto by Giovacchino Forzano

Characters and performers
Oedipus Vittorio Vitelli | Jocasta Maria Billeri | Creon Samuele Simoncini
Tiresias Paolo Pecchioli | a Corinthian Nicolò Ayroldi
A shepherd didier pieri

Cupiditas Orchestra
Conductor Valerio Galli
Choir arche
Choir director Marco Bargagna

Performance in concert form

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