Believe in the Hail Mary.

(See Cover)It was the emotion-packed end of Act I of Pagliacci, and the clown’s heart was broken; the sob-racked notes of Vesti la Giubba soared out of the phonograph, quivered through the cluttered ...

Three film-makers - Werner Herzog, Dougal Wilson and Sam Taylor-Wood have been commissioned by the English National Opera and Sky Arts to make a short film of an operatic aria. Sam Taylor-Wood's film ...

The clown Pagliacci sings this lament in Leoncavallo's opera, but the aria has also been commandeered to express sadness and frustration throughout popular culture. In The Simpsons' episode "The ...

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