Leoncavallo

[ le-awn-kah-vahl-law ]

/ lɛˌɔn kɑˈvɑl lɔ /

Rug·gie·ro

[rood-je-raw] /rudˈdʒɛ rɔ/,1858–1919, Italian operatic composer and librettist.

Example sentences from the Web for leoncavallo

It was the first time that Lancaster had heard Leoncavallo's opera.

Cape of Storms |Percival Pollard
Leoncavallo set the same story to music, writing the book himself.

Giacomo Puccini |Wakeling Dry
Glck's "Orpheus and Eurydice" is a short opera that alongside of Leoncavallo's work would delight the musical epicure.

Stars of the Opera |Mabel Wagnalls
Leoncavallo is never much of a melodist, and 'Pagliacci' teems with reminiscences.

The Opera |R.A. Streatfeild

Did you ever hear of Leoncavallo, Verdi, or that there is such a thing as a Russian composer?

Stover at Yale |Owen Johnson

Leoncavallo

/ (Italian leoŋkaˈvallo) /

Ruggiero (rudˈdʒɛːro). 1858–1919, Italian composer of operas, notably I Pagliacci (1892)