Ruggiero Leoncavallo has been played on NTS in shows including Tafelmusik w/ Francesco Fusaro, featured first on 8 August 2021. Songs played include Il Tabarro, No! Pagliaccio Non Son (Act II) and Donna Non Vidi Mai (Act I).

Ruggiero Leoncavallo (April 23, 1857- August 9, 1919) was an Italian opera composer.

The son of a judge, Leoncavallo was educated at the Conservatorio San Pietro a Majella in his native city, Naples (the date 1858, given for his birth in older histories of music, is incorrect). After some years spent teaching and in ineffective attempts to obtain the production of more than one opera, he saw the…