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 Opera in two acts to music by Ruggero Leoncavallo. Libretto by Ruggero Leoncavallo. Music Director: Anton Grishanin. Stage Director: Hans-Joachim Frey. Sung in Italian. Presented without interval. It’s 1910 and a silence movie team is on the film set where they prepare their next production: they rehearse and shoot a film. It’s a work between production, preparing, comedy, tragedy, reality and film illusion. In the Prologue, the audience and members of the film production team are warned that the performance they are going to see is based on real events and devoid of pretense. A group of actors come to the production place: Canio, the head of company, his wife Nedda, Tonio, who also is the film director, and Peppe. They invite everyone on stage and in the auditorium to see their show. They start to shoot. The actors are asked out for a drink. Canio and Peppe accept the invitation. Left alone with Nedda, Tonio takes the chance to confess his feelings for her. Nedda scorns him and drives him away. They start to play between shooting the film, rehearsal, and reality: alone, Nedda is visited by Silvio, a member of the film team who has been in love with her and wants her to leave Canio for him...
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