They belonged to the upper middle class. They first settled in San Miniato al Tedesco in the 18th century. He would later partially use these notes, according to a direct witness, in Guglielmo Ratcliff. Italian composer and conductor Pietro Mascagni (1863–1945) is best known for his verismo masterpiece Cavalleria rusticana. Zilia is about one of the voyages of Christopher Columbus. They first settled in San Miniato al Tedesco in the 18th century. Paolo Mascagni (1755-1815) was a famous anatomist and professor at the universities of Pisa and Florence. He had to take care of his family alone. Mascagni was born in Livorno and followed his musical vocation against his father’s wishes. His first compositions won him financial support to study at the Milan Conservatory. Uncle Stefano also helped Pietro through his high school years and during the time Mascagni went to study music in spite of his father’s dreams of a law career for his son. All the noise that resulted from Mascagni’s piano playing exasperated his father who ended up burning the precious libretto. Around 1850 Antonio Mascagni settled in Leghorn. He used to insert the great Italian musicians of the past from Rossini to Verdi. (c) 2017 Comitato Promotore Maestro Pietro MascagniWe use cookies to personalize your content, providing our functions and analyze our traffic. Biography. His first compositions won him financial support to study at the Milan Conservatory. Pietro succeeded in saving and hiding away the musical notes. In the great tours abroad, Mascagni offered different programs. His 1890 masterpiece Cavalleria Rusticana caused one of the greatest sensations in opera history and single-handedly ushered in the Verismo movement in Italian dramatic music. Other than studying the piano, the young Mascagni began a singing as a contralto in the Scola Cantorum in the church of San Benedetto.Mascagni himself tells us that at thirteen he found a libretto entitled Zilia. Photograph by Bushnell, San FranciscoEva-Maria Westbroek as Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticanaEva-Maria Westbroek as Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticanaDimitri Platanias as Tonio, Carmen Giannattasio as Nedda, Aleksandrs Antonenko as Canio and Benjamin Hulett as Beppe in PagliacciElena Zilio as Mama Lucia and Eva-Maria Westbroek as Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticanaMartina Belli as Lola and Aleksandrs Antonenko as Turridu in Cavalleria rusticanaEva-Maria Westbroek as Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticanaElena Zilio as Mama Lucia and Eva-Maria Westbroek as Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticanaDionysios Sourbis as Silvio in Cavalleria rusticanaCarmen Giannattasio as Nedda and Dionysios Sourbis as Silvio in PagliacciCarmen Giannattasio as Nedda, Aleksandrs Antonenko as Canio and Benjamin Hulett as Beppe in PagliacciAleksandrs Antonenko as Canio and Dimitri Platanias as Tonio in PagliacciCarmen Giannattasio as Nedda and Dionysios Sourbis as Silvio in PagliacciElena Zilio as Mama Lucia and Aleksandrs Antonenko as Turridu in Cavalleria rusticanaEva-Maria Westbroek as Santuzza and Aleksandrs Antonenko as Turrido in Cavalleria rusticanaCredited with Mascagni showed from his boyhood a remarkable musical talent, and began his studies with a fine Leghorn musician, Alfredo Soffredini. He left in 1885 before graduating to work as a conductor with Dario Acconci’s touring company, which had staged his operetta Like a collection of short stories or the B-movies of the 1940s and 50s, grouping operas together allows us to appreciate their contrasts.With so many DVD, Blu-Ray and CD recordings of Mascagni and Leoncavallo's operas on offer, how do you choose between them?Fierce competition may have fuelled the composition of these two operas, but together they now make one of opera’s most popular couplings.Carmen Giannattasio as Nedda and Dionysios Sourbis as Silvio in Cavalleria rusticanaEva-Maria Westbroek as Santuzza and Dimitri Platanias as Alfio in Cavalleria rusticanaEva-Maria Westbroek as Santuzza and Aleksandrs Antonenko as Turrido in Cavalleria rusticanaCarmen Giannattasio as Nedda and Dionysios Sourbis as Silvio in PagliacciDimitri Platanias as Tonio, Aleksandrks Antonenko as Canio and Carmen Giannattasio as Nedda in PagliacciCarmen Giannattasio as Nedda and Aleksandrs Antonenko as Canio in PagliacciCarmen Giannattasio as Nedda, Aleksandrs Antonenko as Canio and Dimitri Platanias as Tonio in PagliacciCarmen Giannattasio as Nedda, Dionysios Sourbis as Silvio and Dimitri Platanias as Tonio in PagliacciCarmen Giannattasio as Nedda and Dimitri Platanias as Tonio in PagliacciPietro Mascagni. In 1873 Emilia died at the age of only 32 and for her husband Domenico it was a tragedy.