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The complete opera, ' Pagliacci ' (Leoncavallo)
Cast :
Members of the Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala,
Milan
Conductor, MAESTRO SABAJNO
Leoncavallo's one really successful opera has been, for more than forty years, as popular with every class of opera-goer as any work in the repertory, excepting perhaps that cf Cavalleria Rusticana with which Pagliacci is nearly always associated in performance. Both these operas, and many others, have beeu recorded complete on gramophone discs by artists of international fame, and the present broadcast of the whole of Pagliacci, made possible by gramophone enterprise, will revive pleasant memories of the opera house for thousands of listeners.

Contributors

Nedda (Soprano):
Adelaide Saraceni
Canio (Tenor):
Alessandro Valente
Tonio (Baritone):
Apollo Granforte
Peppe (Tenor):
Nello Palai
Silvio (Baritone):
Leonildo Basi

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National Programme is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 9th March 1930 and ended on the 9th September 1939. It was replaced by BBC Home Service.

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