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Your search criteria were: Database searched-aria Opera-I Pagliacci Range Function-not used Voice Part-All Language-All "The upshot of that except in the case of abnormally pitched voices, was displacement, fatigue, intolerable strain, shattering tremolo, and finally, not, as could have been wished, total annihilation, but the development of an unnatural trick of making an atrociously disagreeable noise and inflicting it on the public as Italian singing." -George Bernard Shaw on the high tessituras Verdi set for his baritone parts. View All Quotes

Si puo? - Prologue
      from Prologue of the Italian opera, I Pagliacci by Ruggiero Leoncavallo
      Libretto : Ruggiero Leoncavallo

• Role : Tonio, a performer in the troupe (Taddeo in the play)
• Voice Part : baritone   Fach : dramatic baritone
• Setting : In front of the curtain
• Range : B3 to F4. Tessitura : C3 to D#/Eb4
• Synopsis : Tonio steps out in front of the curtain apparently in the middle of the overture to explain why the composer wrote the opera as he did. He then goes on to say that the story that the audience is viewing is not merely a play, but a real story with actors that have real feelings.
• Sound file : MIDI file and zip format sequenced by Radamir Lira de Sousa.
• Translation and/or Aria Text : Libretto entered by Robert Glaubitz.
• Recordings : Complete Opera  Excerpts from Opera
• Where to Find It : Score of opera and aria alone - Classical Vocal Reprints, 1-800-298-7474. Catalog number for aria : #0693 for score : #511-0 (Sonzogno). Buy vocal score online at Sheet Music Plus.

Un tal gioco, credete mi
      from Act I of the Italian opera, I Pagliacci by Ruggiero Leoncavallo
      Libretto : Ruggiero Leoncavallo

• Role : Canio, the head of a performing troupe
• Voice Part : tenor   Fach : spinto
• Setting : The entrance to a village, Calabria, Italy, 1860s
• Range : D3 to A5. Tessitura : F3 to G4
• Synopsis : After a villager makes a joke about flirting with Canio's wife Nedda, Canio warns the rest of the villagers, saying that while everything on the stage is an illusion, life is reality and with a real transgression comes real punishment.
• Sound file : none
• Translation and/or Aria Text : Libretto entered by Robert Glaubitz.
• Recordings : Complete Opera  Excerpts from Opera
• Where to Find It : Score of opera - Classical Vocal Reprints, 1-800-298-7474. Catalog #511-0 (Sonzogno). Buy vocal score online at Sheet Music Plus.

Qual fiamma avea nel guardo
      from Act I of the Italian opera, I Pagliacci by Ruggiero Leoncavallo
      Libretto : Ruggiero Leoncavallo

• Role : Nedda, Canio's wife (Columbine in the play)
• Voice Part : soprano   Fach : lyric soprano
• Setting : The entrance to a village, Calabria, Italy, 1860s
• Range : D4 to A6. Tessitura : E4 to F#/Gb5
• Synopsis : Nedda worries about the jealousy that Canio is showing towards her. She is afraid that he will find out the truth : she has fallen in love with another and has been seeing him behind Canio's back.
• Sound file : none
• Translation and/or Aria Text : Libretto entered by Robert Glaubitz.
• Recordings : Complete Opera  Excerpts from Opera
• Where to Find It : Score of opera and aria alone - Classical Vocal Reprints, 1-800-298-7474. Catalog number for aria : #0639, for score : #511-0 (Sonzogno). Buy vocal score online at Sheet Music Plus.

Stridono lassù - Ballatella
      from Act I of the Italian opera, I Pagliacci by Ruggiero Leoncavallo
      Libretto : Ruggiero Leoncavallo

• Role : Nedda, Canio's wife (Columbine in the play)
• Voice Part : soprano   Fach : lyric soprano
• Setting : The entrance to a village, Calabria, Italy, 1860s
• Range : C#/Db4 to A6. Tessitura : E4 to G#/Ab5
• Synopsis : Nedda watches her jealous and abusive husband go off with Beppe and some of the villagers after announcing the play the troupe will perform that night. She fears his discovery and then wonders about the soaring of songbirds and about the meanings of their songs.
• Sound file : none
• Translation and/or Aria Text : Translation by Manuel A. Gutiérrez.
• Recordings : Complete Opera  Excerpts from Opera
• Where to Find It : Score of opera - Classical Vocal Reprints, 1-800-298-7474. Catalog #511-0 (Sonzogno). Buy vocal score online at Sheet Music Plus.

Vesti la giubba - Arioso
      from Act I of the Italian opera, I Pagliacci by Ruggiero Leoncavallo
      Libretto : Ruggiero Leoncavallo

• Role : Canio, the head of a performing troupe
• Voice Part : tenor   Fach : spinto
• Setting : The entrance to a village, Calabria, Italy, 1860s
• Range : D3 to A5. Tessitura : G3 to G4
• Synopsis : Canio sings that, although his love has betrayed him and his heart is broken, he must go on and show a cheerful face to the world.
• Sound file : MIDI file and zip format sequenced by Jill P. Bondurant.
• Translation and/or Aria Text : Translation by Randall Garrou and translation into Spanish by Alejandro González Ponce.
• Recordings : Aria Alone  Complete Opera  Excerpts from Opera
• Where to Find It : Score of opera and aria alone - Classical Vocal Reprints, 1-800-298-7474. Catalog number for aria : #0696, for score : #511-0 (Sonzogno). Buy vocal score online at Sheet Music Plus.

O Columbina, il tenero fido Arlecchin - Serenata
      from Act II of the Italian opera, I Pagliacci by Ruggiero Leoncavallo
      Libretto : Ruggiero Leoncavallo

• Role : Beppe, a performer in the troupe (Harlequin in the play)
• Voice Part : tenor   Fach : buffo tenor
• Setting : A theater, a village in Calabria, Italy, 1860s
• Range : E3 to A5. Tessitura : G#/Ab3 to F4
• Synopsis : Beppe as the Harlequin serenades Nedda's character, Columbina, proclaiming his love for her and asking her to come out and talk to him.
• Sound file : none
• Translation and/or Aria Text : Libretto entered by Robert Glaubitz.
• Recordings : Complete Opera  Excerpts from Opera
• Where to Find It : Score of opera and aria alone - Classical Vocal Reprints, 1-800-298-7474. Catalog number for aria : #0460, for score : #511-0 (Sonzogno). Buy vocal score online at Sheet Music Plus.