He dies in the hospital a short time thereafter, but he is able to communicate the names of the aggressors. The next evening Luigi together with another of his brothers, a certain Giovanni, approach and stab Gaetano Scavello in the middle of the square. The boy doesn’t say anything so Gaetano beats him with a rod.
One day Gaetano sees D’Alessandro’s younger brother coming out of the girl’s house, and he asks him what he’s been doing there. In 1865 the young employee at the Leoncavallo residence, Gaetano Scavello had an affair with a young girl who was engaged to another man by the name of Luigi D’Alessandro. Ruggero was only 8 at the time, and his father, Vincenzo Leoncavallo, who was a judge from Naples, convicted the two accomplices.Īnd this is what happened. The event he referred to was the murder of the composer’s tutor in the small town of Montalto Uffugo in southern Italy. His own La Femme de Tabarin in fact has more or less the same story (… That he, in turn, had copied from the opera Tabarin by Émile Pessard).Īnyway, Leoncavallo defended himself saying that he had based his opera on a real event that happened when he was a child. When it was set up in Paris, the French writer Catulle Mendès accused Leoncavallo of plagiarism. The success of the opera made waves in the operatic world and soon it was translated into other languages… French for example.
He was only 25 years at the time and not yet as famous as he would later become, not even to the Milan audience. The opera premiered in 1892 and the conductor was no less than the great Italian Maestro, Arturo Toscanini. The actual legal case that involved Leoncavallo.
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