Seattle Opera will open its 2024/25 season with the “clown prince” of Italian verismo, Pagliacci. Ruggero Leoncavallo’s gritty tale of jealousy and unbridled rage holds a mirror up to a violent ...

Ask the average Seattleite what they think of when they hear the word pagliacci and they’re almost guaranteed to answer “pizza”—or, maybe, “class action lawsuit.” One hundred years ago, though, the ...

If Milan is like Manchester with better food and tailoring, venture south of Rome and one enters a different world. I’d seen this in Francesco Rosi’s television adaptation of Carlo Levi’s Christ ...

Want to know why some people hate clowns? Check out the Fargo-Moorhead Opera's "I Pagliacci" this weekend. The central character is ground zero for sad, dark, twisted clowns. We don't want to give ...

If you haven't attended a Puddles Pity Party before, there's no time like the present to get down and melancholy with the so-called "Sad Clown with the Golden Voice." Or, as one observer described him ...