Canon
Where to start with Leoncavallo
Essential works to know this composer by — spread across their styles-
StagePagliacci — Opera
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VocalAddio
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KeyboardBarcarola veneziana
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VocalAprile
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VocalBrise de mer
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VocalC'è nel tuo sguardo
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VocalCanzone d'amore
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StageChatterton — Opera
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VocalDonna vorrei morir
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VocalDéclaration
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VocalHymne à la lyre
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StageI Medici
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VocalInvocation à la muse
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StageLa bohème — Opera
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VocalLa chanson des yeux
Listening guide
Hand-curated paths into Leoncavallo's catalogueMost Popular
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Pagliacci (opera)
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Vesti la giubba (from Pagliacci)
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Mattinata (song)
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Prologue from Pagliacci
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La Bohème (opera — his version)
Most Acclaimed
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Pagliacci
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Prologue from Pagliaccithe baritone addresses the audience directly — unusual theatrical conceit
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Zazà (opera)
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La Bohème
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Edipo Re (opera)
Most Weird
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La Bohèmepremiered six days after Puccini’s version; Leoncavallo’s premiered first in Venice; Puccini’s version eclipsed it everywhere within a year
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Edipo Reverismo treatment of Oedipus — brutal
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Der Roland von Berlin (opera)German grand opera commissioned by Kaiser Wilhelm II
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Malbruk (opera)
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Pagliacci — the play within a playthe commedia dell’arte performance within the opera mirrors the real murder — metalevels of fiction and reality
Similar composers
Same era, overlapping styles — by genre & period affinityWorks 31
- Stage
- ● Pagliacci — Opera
- Chatterton — Opera
- I Medici
- La bohème — Opera
- Zazà — Opera
- Zingari — Opera
- Vocal
- Addio
- Aprile
- Brise de mer
- C'è nel tuo sguardo
- Canzone d'amore
- Donna vorrei morir
- Déclaration
- Hymne à la lyre
- Invocation à la muse
- La chanson des yeux
- Lasciate amar
- Mandolinata
- Mattinata, for voice and piano
- Mattinata; Wien, Wien, nur du allein; Amapola; O sole mio
- Ne m'oubliez pas
- Notte ha steso il gran vel
- Nuit de décembre
- Nuit de mai, for chorus and orchestra
- Pensiero
- Qu'a jamais le soleil
- Se!
- Sérénade française, "Au clair de la lune, mon gentil Pierrot"
- Vieni, amor mio
- Keyboard
- Barcarola veneziana
- Valse mignonne