Miami performances are at the Sanford and Dolores Ziff Ballet Opera House at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County, 1300 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami.

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Fort Lauderdale performances are at the Au-Rene Theater at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts, 201 SW 5th Avenue, Fort Lauderdale.

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I pagliacci


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Episode #1: The Once and Future Clowns
From podcast Tales of Florida Grand Opera with Justin Moss



Music and libretto by RUGGERO LEONCAVALLO
First performed: May 21, 1892, Teatro Dal Verme, Milan
Last performed by Florida Grand Opera in 2009
Canio’s not clowning around. His beautiful wife Nedda longs to be free of his clumsy embraces, of her life as a traveling actor, and from the advances of the vile Tonio. 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.”

CAST
Limmie Pulliam*
Canio		 Kearstin Piper Brown*
Nedda		 Robert Mellon*
Tonio
 
Conductor, Gregory Buchalter
Director, Jeffrey Marc Buchman
 
 *  FGO Debut 

Sung in Italian with English and Spanish projected translations

About Florida Grand Opera's Production
I pagliacci is typically paired with another shorter opera. Florida Grand Opera is consciously choosing to stage a stand-alone production. Director Jeffrey Marc Buchman writes: “There is a long and wonderful connection between opera and Neapolitan songs. Much like the verismo style of opera to which Pagliacci belongs, Neapolitan songs are built on themes of the celebration of love and the pain of betrayal that resonated with the people of small, rural Italian villages like ours in Pagliacci. I have chosen to begin our ‘show within a show’ in Act Two with a series of Neapolitan songs that create an added exploration of the dramatic content of Pagliacci and continue the arc of its story. I believe that this expansion of Pagliacci will only offer greater opportunity to immerse ourselves deep into the complexities of this tragic story and the real human emotions at its core.”
MIAMI
Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts
of Miami-Dade County / Ziff Ballet Opera House
Jan 27, 2024, at 6:00pm
Jan 28, 2024, at 3:00pm
Jan 30, 2024, at 8:00pm
FORT LAUDERDALE
Broward Center for the Performing Arts / Au-Rene Theater
Feb 8, 2024, at 7:30pm
Feb 10, 2024, at 7:30pm

Pictured: Limmie Pulliam in I pagliacci. Photo by Peter Serko courtesy of Vashon Opera.
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