Leoncavallo’s Tragic Clown, Pagliacci

he is the tragic clown hi I’m Mahalo
common with watchmojo.com and today
we’ll be learning more about Leon
Cavallo spaaaaace so can you tell us a
bit about what your role is in this
upper the beginning apology there’s a
prologue which is an sung by the
baritone which is what I do I actually
go to this myself dressed like this in a
white t-shirt peacefully explain about
what you’re going to see in Polly gotcha
kind of get everything going during
Pagliacci I play the character Tonio
within Pagliacci there’s a play within a
play in that I played patty oh can you
tell us about the story and the plot
opera at this time turned a corner it it
was more about kings and queens like the
Marriage of Figaro Dee but this young
Cavallo it’s about real people
it’s actually based on a true story Leon
Cavallo who wrote the work his father
was a judge I believe or a lawyer and he
heard of this case about this traveling
group where the the main character of
this Travel Group so got so angry with
his wife that he killed her right there
on the stage or something like this so
this imitates real life and so it’s full
of passionate
emotion emotion lots of over the top
there’s actually also a famous area and
this Pratt big grand singing this dealer
drew by you know that the big crying
clown the famous scene that everybody
knows
Oh
Seinfeld even quoted at the crying clown
in the ones Seinfeld episode it’s all
about the clown getting ready laughing
although inside he knows his wife is
fooling around on him with a local
villager but now he has to go off the
show he’s just full of emotion rage
cries and it just comes out of this it
was a pleasure meeting you thank you
very much thank you thank you