Zazà
Ruggero Leoncavallo |
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Operas
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Over the next twenty years it received over fifty new productions from Palermo to Paris, Buenos Aires to Moscow, Cairo to San Francisco, arriving at The Metropolitan Opera on 16 January 1920 in a production directed by David Belasco and conducted by Roberto Moranzoni, starring Geraldine Farrar, Giulio Crimi and Pasquale Amato, and later Giovanni Martinelli and Giuseppe De Luca. La bohème and Zazà are the operas of Leoncavallo's which most nearly matched the success of Pagliacci.
The story of the opera concerns the French music hall singer, Zazà and her affair and subsequent decision to leave her lover, Milio, when she discovers that he is married. The score is rich with the colorful details of the French music halls where Leoncavallo had spent his early years as a composer.
References
Sources
- Casaglia, Gherardo, "Zazà", Almanacco Amadeus. Accessed 8 July 2009.
- Gelli, Piero (ed.), "Zazà", Dizionario dell'Opera, Baldini Castoldi Dalai, 2007, ISBN 88-6073-184-4. Accessed online 8 July 2009.
- Zazà archive at the Teatro Grattacielo. Retrieved, April, 2010.
- Gallery of photographic postcards from Alterocca-Terni of the first production of Zazà in 1900.