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Biography
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Ruggiero Leoncavallo
Real name: Ruggiero Giacomo Maria Giuseppe Emmanuele Raffaele Domenico Vincenzo Francesco Donato Leoncavallo
Effective period / Period of releases: 1909 - 2012
Italian opera composer.Born: 23 April 1857 in Naples, Italy (then Kingdom Of Two Sicilies).
Died: 9 August 1919 in Montecatini Terme, Tuscany, Italy (aged 62).
His two-act work "Pagliacci" (1892) remains one of the most popular works in the repertory, appearing as number 20 on the Operabase list of the most-performed operas worldwide.