Florida Grand Opera: I Pagliacci
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Join Florida Grand Opera on January 27, 28 and 30, 2024 at the Arsht Center for a performance of I Pagliacci, Ruggero Leoncavallo's searing drama of love, jealousy and death. In Pagliacci, Canio manages a small touring company of actors. In the town where they're about to perform, he's enraged to discover that his wife Nedda, the company's leading actress, has fallen in love with a handsome young man from the town, Silvio, and is planning to run away with him. When Canio catches her with her lover Silvio, only the start of the troupe’s performance can stay his hand … but not for long. Leoncavallo’s gritty and gorgeous score, based on a true incident witnessed by his policeman father, culminates in one of the most famous and tragic tenor arias of all time: "Vesti la giubba,” the original “Tears of a Clown.”