Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni and Pagliacci (Clowns) by Ruggero Leoncavallo, are short one and two act operas usually performed together, and are among the most performed operas in North America. Pagliacci is Leoncavallo's only successful opera and in the Marx Brothers film A Night at the Opera, the character Lassparri has just finished performing Pagliacci.
In Ruggiero Leoncavallo opera Pagliacci, the character Nedda is a “Columbina” from the Commedia dell’Arte, a form of improvisational pantomine theater.
As heavily made-up comic female servant, and played opposite a clueless Harlequin character, the “dove-like” Columbina is often the only character with any intellectual oversight of the situation.
Ruggero Leoncavallo, an Italian opera composer, said he based his popular Pagliacci on a murder trial which his father, a police magistrate, had presided.
Leoncavallo's two-act work Pagliacci remains one of the most popular works in the repertory, appearing as number 20 on the Operabase list of the most-performed operas worldwide
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