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** Creator/EnricoCaruso's [[https://archive.org/details/Caruso_part1?collection=78rpm&collectionid=Caruso_part1 early gramophone recording in 1907]] became the first record ''ever'' to sell over one million copies, making Caruso the first superstar recording artist.

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** Creator/EnricoCaruso's Music/EnricoCaruso's [[https://archive.org/details/Caruso_part1?collection=78rpm&collectionid=Caruso_part1 early gramophone recording in 1907]] became the first record ''ever'' to sell over one million copies, making Caruso the first superstar recording artist.
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The prologue is in the score, so "traditionally" seems like the wrong term here


Traditionally, before the opera opens, the hunchback clown Tonio delivers a lengthy prologue: don't treat us as make-believe; we are people of flesh and blood, and [[TrueArtIsAngsty art is created with real love and real tears]].

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Traditionally, before Before the opera opens, the hunchback clown Tonio delivers a lengthy prologue: don't treat us as make-believe; we are people of flesh and blood, and [[TrueArtIsAngsty art is created with real love and real tears]].
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A cornerstone of Italian ''verismo'' ("reality") opera, ''Pagliacci'' is composer Ruggiero Leoncavallo's first opera, and his [[OneHitWonder only one]] still regularly performed nowadays. The title is Italian for "Clowns".

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A cornerstone of Italian ''verismo'' ("reality") opera, ''Pagliacci'' is composer composer/librettist Ruggiero Leoncavallo's first opera, and his [[OneHitWonder only one]] still regularly performed nowadays. The title is Italian for "Clowns".
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: In some adaptations Tonio after watching Canio killing his wife and her lover gleefuly turns to the audience gloating that "The comedy is finished."
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* CrystalBallScheduling: It works out very badly that Canio and Nedda are slated to play in a comedy about an unfaithful wife and jealous husband.

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* CrystalBallScheduling: It works out very badly that Canio and Nedda are slated to play in a comedy about an unfaithful wife and jealous husband.husband right after Canio discovers Nedda’s infidelity.

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* PopCulturalOsmosis: You've heard ''[[https://youtu.be/Z0PMq4XGtZ4?t=1m56s Vesti la Giubba]]'' before. Also, this play is a favorite theme for ComicBook/TheJoker for his crimes.

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* PopCulturalOsmosis: You've heard ''[[https://youtu.be/Z0PMq4XGtZ4?t=1m56s Vesti la Giubba]]'' before. Also, this
** Creator/EnricoCaruso's [[https://archive.org/details/Caruso_part1?collection=78rpm&collectionid=Caruso_part1 early gramophone recording in 1907]] became the first record ''ever'' to sell over one million copies, making Caruso the first superstar recording artist.
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play is a favorite theme for ComicBook/TheJoker for his crimes.


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* StandardSnippet: "Vesti la Giubba" is one of the best known of all {{Opera}} arias, and as seen throughout the page has been very widely quoted, played, and referenced in pop culture, especially in moments of high drama or dramatic irony.
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*TheBadGuyWins: The closing line was originally given to Tonio instead of Canio, as he had been the one to engineer the fall of all three of his rivals (Canio for generally shabby treatment, Nedda [[IfICantHaveYou for rejecting his advances]], and Silvio for being Nedda's preference) without ever getting his own hands dirty.
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In front of a large audience during the play - which involves how Colombina (played by Nedda), under the knowing eyes of her servant Taddeo (Tonio), slips a sleeping drug in Pagliaccio's (Canio's) wine so that she can elope with her lover Arlecchino (Peppe, the fourth member of the troupe) - Canio derails the comedy to demand that Nedda comes clean. The crowd marvel at how emotive the performance is, but Nedda knows she is in [[OhCrap deep trouble]]. She desperately tries to keep the play on track, which only fuels Canio's anger. He stabs Nedda on stage. Her dying scream gives away the name of her lover, whom Canio then kills. His vengeance done, Canio [[note]]In some stagings, and in the original version of the script, the line is given to Tonio, forming a FramingDevice[[/note]] announces "La Commedia è finita!" - "The comedy is finished!"

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In front of a large audience during the play - which involves how Colombina (played by Nedda), under the knowing eyes of her servant Taddeo (Tonio), slips a sleeping drug in Pagliaccio's (Canio's) wine so that she can elope with her lover Arlecchino (Peppe, the fourth member of the troupe) - -- Canio derails the comedy to demand that Nedda comes clean. The crowd marvel at how emotive the performance is, but Nedda knows she is in [[OhCrap deep trouble]]. She desperately tries to keep the play on track, which only fuels Canio's anger. He stabs Nedda on stage. Her dying scream gives away the name of her lover, whom Canio then kills. His vengeance done, Canio [[note]]In some stagings, and in the original version of the script, the line is given to Tonio, forming a FramingDevice[[/note]] announces "La Commedia è finita!" - -- "The comedy is finished!"
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* BSODSong: ''Vesti la giubba'', as Canio is wrought with turmoil over how to process his wife's infidelity while still having to prepare for their performance.

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* BSODSong: ''Vesti "Vesti la giubba'', giubba", as Canio is wrought with turmoil over how to process his wife's infidelity while still having to prepare for their performance.
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* WifeHusbandry: Towards the end of the opera, Canio reveals that that he found Nedda as a starving orphan, took her in and offered her a name before [[{{Squick}} marrying her himself]].

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* WifeHusbandry: Towards the end of the opera, Canio reveals that that he found Nedda as a starving orphan, took her in and offered gave her a name before [[{{Squick}} marrying her himself]].
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* WifeHusbandry: Towards the end of the opera, Canio reveals that that he found Nedda as a starving orphan and raised her as his own child before [[{{Squick}} marrying her himself]].

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* WifeHusbandry: Towards the end of the opera, Canio reveals that that he found Nedda as a starving orphan orphan, took her in and raised offered her as his own child a name before [[{{Squick}} marrying her himself]].

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