Ruggero Leoncavallo Born: 8-Mar-1857 Birthplace: Naples, Italy Died: 9-Aug-1919 Location of death: Montecatini Terme, Italy Cause of death: unspecified Remains: Buried, Cimitero Monumentale Delle Porte Sante, Florence, Italy
Gender: Male Religion: Roman Catholic Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Composer Nationality: Italy Executive summary: Pagliacci Italian operatic composer, was born at Naples and educated for music at the conservatoire there. After some years spent in teaching and in ineffectual attempts to obtain the production of more than one opera, his Pagliacci was performed at Milan in 1892 with immediate success; and next year his Medici was also produced there. But neither the latter nor Chatterton (1896) -- both early works -- obtained any favor; and it was not until La Bohėme was performed in 1897 at Venice that his talent obtained public confirmation. Subsequent operas by Leoncavallo were Zaza (1900), and Der Roland (1904). In all these operas he was his own librettist.
Wife: Berthe Rambaud (singer)
University: Naples Conservatory
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