14. Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo
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Ruggero Leoncavallo

Title Premiere

Chatterton

(composed 1876) Rome , Teatro Argentina , March 10, 1896 libretto by the composer after Alfred de Vigny

Pagliacci

Milan , Teatro Dal Verme, May 21, 1892 libretto by the composer

I Medici

Milan , Teatro Dal Verme, November 9, 1893 libretto by the composer; intended to be part of a trilogy entitled Crepusculum (parts 2 and 3 incomplete)

La bohème

Venice , Teatro la Fenice, May 6, 1897 libretto by the composer, after Scènes de la vie de bohème by Henri Murger

Zazà

Milan , Teatro Lirico, November 10, 1900 libretto by the composer, after Pierre Berton and Charles Simon

Der Roland von Berlin

Berlin , Städtische Oper, December 13, 1904 libretto by the composer, after Willibald Alexis

La jeunesse de Figaro

New York , November, 1906 libretto by the composer, after Les premières armes de Figaro by Victorien Sardou and Maurice Vaucaire

Maià

Rome , Teatro Costanzi, January 15, 1910 libretto by A. Nessi, after P. de Choudens

Malbruk

Rome , Teatro Nazionale, January 19, 1910 libretto by A. Nessi, after Boccaccio

La reginetta delle rose

Rome , Teatro Costanzi, and Naples , Politeama Giacosa, June 24, 1912 libretto by Giovacchino Forzano

Zingari

London , Hippodrome, September 16, 1912 libretto by E. Cavicchioli and G. Emanuel, after Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

Are You There?

London , Prince of Wales Theatre, November, 1913 libretto by A. de Courville and E. Wallace

La candidata

Rome , Teatro Nazionale, and Turin , Politeama Chiarella, February 6, 1915 libretto by Giovacchino Forzano

Goffredo Mameli

Genoa , Teatro Carlo Felice, April 27, 1916 libretto by the composer and G. Belvederi

Prestami tua moglie

Montecatini, Casino, September 2, 1916 libretto by E. Corradi

A chi la giarrettiera?

Rome , Teatro Adriano, October 16, 1919 libretto by the composer

Edipo re

Chicago , Opera, December 13, 1920 libretto by Giovacchino Forzano, after Sophocles; completed by G. Pennacchio

Il primo bacio

Montecatini, Salone di Cura, April 29, 1923 libretto by L. Bonelli

La maschera nuda

Naples , Politeama, June 26, 1925 libretto by L. Bonelli and F. Paolieri, completed by S. Allegra

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