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Opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo | |
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Premiere | 16 September 1912 Hippodrome Theater, London |
Zingari (Gypsies), also known as Gli Zingari, is an opera in two acts by Ruggero Leoncavallo. The libretto by Enrico Cavacchioli [it] and Guglielmo Emanuel [it] is based on The Gypsies, an 1827 narrative poem by Alexander Pushkin. The opera premiered on 16 September 1912 at the Hippodrome Theatre in London.[1] The United States premiere of the opera was staged by the Chicago Grand Opera Company in 1913 with soprano Carolina White as Fleana.[2]
Despite the opera's present obscurity, its incredibly long run in London in 1912/3 and performances in the United States in 1913 make it Leoncavallo's most performed opera after Pagliacci, surpassing the performances of his more widely known Zazà and La bohème.[citation needed] Although Edigio Cunego, who created the role of Radu and appeared in hundreds of performances of Zingari in London (sometimes twice a day), recorded much from Leoncavallo's operas, he did not record any excerpts from Zingari.[citation needed]