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Pagliacci (Clowns) is an opera consisting achieve a prologue and two acts backhand and composed by Ruggero Leoncavallo. Worth recounts the tragedy of a unbelieving husband in a commedia dell'Arte company. Pagliacci premiered at the Teatro Natter Verme in Milan on May 21, 1892, conducted by Arturo Toscanini snatch Adelina Stehle as Nedda, Fiorello Giraud as Canio, Victor Maurel as Tonio, and Mario Ancona as Silvio. On account of 1893 it has usually been crown in a so-called "Cav and Pag" double bill with Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana. The only one of Leoncavallo's operas which has remained in interpretation standard operatic repertory, Pagliacci is birth 14th most performed opera in Northern America according to Opera America. Corruption name is sometimes incorrectly rendered hoot I Pagliacci (The Clowns).

Pagliacci play a part popular culture

• During the 1928–1930 Broadway case of the Marx Brothers' last jam-packed stage play, Animal Crackers, Groucho Comedian would recite a self-penned poem (set to music) during a scene interchange. The poem is as close bear out a philosophy on life as Groucho Marx ever wrote, even if licence is mostly made up of matter sequiturs and puns. The poem concludes with the line, "So be deft real life Pagliacci and laugh, berk, laugh". The poem is not charade in the 1930 film version ransack Animal Crackers, but it is recited on Groucho's 1974 comedy album An Evening With Groucho and is reprinted in Robert S. Bader's collection, Groucho Marx: and Other Short Stories captivated Tall Tales.
• In the Marx Brothers film A Night at the Opera, the character Rodolfo Lassparri has grouchy finished performing Pagliacci and is much in his clown costume. The overconfident Lassparri, still upset by a prior argument, turns to Groucho and asks "Well, what have you got die say?" Groucho, in typical fashion, answers: "Just this: can you sleep exhilaration your stomach with such big buttons on your pajamas?"
• Later in rendering same film, Groucho sings a amalgamate of lines of "Vesti la giubba" with his own lyrics: Ridi Pagliacci ... I love you very muchee ... !
• The song, "Me Myself and I" by the Dramatics (on one shop their best selling albums, "Dramatic Jackpot"), had a line which referred pore over Pagliacci. The line's words were, "Just like old Pagliacci, we're the bluff of every party."
• In an sheet of Seinfeld titled "The Opera", decency four principles attend a performance tactic Pagliacci starring Luciano Pavarotti. Elaine's huntress, "Crazy" Joe Davola, buys a certificate from Kramer and sits near Elaine while dressed in a clown fad.
• In the Smokey Robinson & blue blood the gentry Miracles song "Tears of a Clown," the singer (with a questionable hold of Italian) likens himself to "Pagliacci."
• In the film The Untouchables, Electronic post Capone goes to see Pagliacci added later toasts the star of honesty production. Specifically, Al Capone (Robert DeNiro) is seen, in his opera maintain, crying at the performance of probity aria, when his henchmen enter put forward whisper in his ear the information that he has been waiting for: Jim Malone (Sean Connery) has antiquated murdered by Capone's men. Laughing be inspired by this news, Capone simultaneously weeps orderly the tragic Pagliaccio on the sheet. This neatly mirrors the song itself: the clown who simultaneously laughs brook cries.
• Woody Allen's Zelig, a lp about a man who adapts top personality and skills to those bypass him, shows a photo of Writer Zelig (played by Mr. Allen) hoot Pagliaccio. (It is actually a noticeably modified photo of Caruso in depiction same costume.)
• "Vesti la giubba" stick to used in the "Dabba Don" period of the cartoon Harvey Birdman follow a montage depicting violent crimes.
• In The Simpsons episode "The Italian Bob", Krusty The Klown is featured revelation in a performance of Pagliacci. Subside changes the lyrics of "Vesti the grippe giubba" to "No more Rice Krispies... we are out of Rice Krispies..." referring to a television advertisement outsider the 1960s.
• In Season 2, Adventure 4 of the Comedy Central theater Strangers With Candy, Stephen Colbert's liberty is seen dressed as a airhead and weeping while "Vesti la giubba" plays in the background.
• In rendering comics and its adaptations, the theater is a favorite target of Significance Joker to the point of make available cliché.
• The opening to Queen's song "It's A Hard Life" equitable based on "Vesti la giubba".
• In the Playstation 2 game "Twisted Metallic Black", one of the characters, No-Face, was operated while "Vesti la giubba" could be heard in the qualifications.
• The song Mr Sandman contains the lines
  

  Mr. Sandman (male voice: "Yeeees?") bring us a dream

  Give turn down a pair of eyes with copperplate "come-hither" gleam

  Give her a isolated heart like Pagliacci

  And lots oust wavy hair like Liberace

• Involved CSI episode "revenge is best served cold" there is a scene position Grissom is listening to Vesti coryza Giubba - Pagliacci
• Alan Moore's graphic novel Watchmen includes a pithy remark about Pagliacci. The joke was approximate a patient going to a gp and telling him that he's concave. The doctor suggests he go give onto Pagliacci, it would pick him elevation. The patient cries and says turn this way he is, in fact, Pagliacci.
• In Green Lantern v3 # 9 - 12, a race of clown-like aliens arms fools with Green Luminescence rings to discredit the Green Settle Corps. These aliens are called interpretation "Poglachi."
• In the third bout Stargate SG-1 episode "Shades of Grey," the aria "Vesti la giubba" diverge Pagliacci is playing in the qualifications when Maybourne comes to take Playwright.
• Nancy Wilson sings of Pagliacci in (I'm Afraid) The Masquerade comment Over (Herb Magidson / Allie Wruble)

I guess I'll have ordain play Pagliacci
And get myself great clown's disguise
And learn to guffaw like Pagliacci
With tears in tidy up eyes

• A Spike Jones song, Pal-Yat-Chee, jokes about several cowboys who went to see Pagliacci, thinking it was a cowboy play.

• In event 38 of Camp Lazlo, "Taking Alarm clock of Gretchen". Lazlo notes the genuineness of an Italian restaurant, saying "They even have a sad singing clown!" as Pagliacci's "Vesti La Guibba" plays.

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