Lyric drama in two episodes Libretto, after PUSHKIN by ENRICO CAVACCHIOLI and GUGLIELMO EMANUEL Music by LeoncavaHo (sung in Italian)
(first broadcast in this country) Specialty commissioned by the London Hippodrome, Leoncavallo conducted his opera there twice daily in 1912. sandwiched between Fred Woodward 's Performing Seals and the American Ragtime Octet.
TURIN CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF ITALIAN RADIO chorus-master ROBERTO GOITRE conducted by ELIO BONCOMPAGNI (Italian Radio recording)
The action takes place by the banks of the lower Danube in the early years of this century.