"Pagliacci" is the opera famous for the aria "Vesti la giubba", lamenting about his situation to put on make-up and force a smile for the play even after witnessing his wife's betrayal. Let's take a closer look at "Pagliacci", the representative piece of verismo operas that death with the lives of the common people unlike ordinary operas which mainly told the stories of history or myths. [팔리아치]는 아내의 배신을 목격하고도 정해진 연극을 하기 위해 분장을 하고 웃어야 하는 자신의 처지를 한탄하는 아리아인 '의상을 입어라'가 유명한 오페라입니다. 역사나 신화의 내용을 주로 다룬 기존의 오페라와는 달리 서민의 삶을 주제로 하는 '베리즈모 오페라'의 대표작, [팔리아치]에 대해 알아보겠습니다.

Puccini's masterpiece, "La Boheme", is a love story which begins on Christmas Eve. The story of youngsters who experience all kinds of love, joy and pain throughout poverty has been loved by many people as much to be adapted as the Broadway musical "Rent". Now, we will explore the opera "La Boheme" also known for the aria, "Che gelida manina". 크리스마스이브에 시작되는 사랑 이야기를 그린 푸치니의 대표작 [라보엠]입니다. 가난한 삶 속에서 온갖 사랑과 기쁨, 고통을 경험하며 성장하는 젊은이들의 이야기는 브로드웨이 뮤지컬 [렌트]로도 각색될 만큼 사람들에게 사랑을 받았습니다. 아리아 [그대의 찬 손]으로도 유명한 오페라 [라보엠]에 대해 알아보겠습니다.

Classics.

(Amadeus). Opera's most enduring tragic double bill of verismo masterpieces, Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci share many common features, most noticeably their direct language, plot simplicity, common-folk characters, and themes of adultery, betrayal, revenge, and murder. Written within two years of each other, and both set in villages in southern Italy, they feature dramatic confrontations, turbulent emotions, and gritty realism. Cavalleria rusticana takes place on Easter in a Sicilian village, where Turiddu, after returning from the army to find his beloved Lola married to the carter Alfio, found solace with the peasant girl Santuzza but ultimately betrayed her and ruined her reputation. When Turiddu goes back to Lola, Santuzza seeks revenge, with tragic results. In Pagliacci , a troupe of traveling commedia dell'arte players is torn apart when its leader, Canio, discovers that his wife, Nedda, has taken a lover. In the ensuing "play within a play," the actors struggle to go on with their performance as the line between theater and reality collapses, leading to an explosive climax.

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