"Murder Clowns and Boffin Cocktails": Leoncavallo & Bellini

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4.8 • 865 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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ARE YOU SCARED OF CLOWNS? WELL QUITE FRANKLY YOU MIGHT BE AFTER THIS. Yeeeees gird your loins people, because this episode we're talking murderous vengeful clowns, disappointing jazz gondolas, and multiple incomprehensible opera plot-lines. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Hello! Hello. Hi, I'm Kelly Harlock and I'm Sasha Kelly and you're listening to that
0:19.2	classical podcast. Welcome everybody once again to the show.
0:23.0	And this month we are talking about two Italian masters of the operatic genre and I don't
0:30.0	know about you Kelly but I think we picked them because we just see their names everywhere and we've
0:35.2	For years. Yeah. Do we know anything about these two people? Exactly. It's like there's one piece that we've heard
0:41.5	like over and over again from each one but actually we know nothing of their lives so
0:45.3	we were like let's share yeah two of those names that you look at and you think is it a
0:49.5	cheese a dessert a pasta or a composer actually that is a great quiz that we a
0:53.4	dessert, a pasta or a composer. Actually that is a great quiz that we should probably put somewhere
0:56.4	on the internet.
0:57.4	But the first composer we have, or is it the first cheese?
1:00.2	We'll never know.
1:01.6	On the roster is a chap called Leon Kavalo and I'm going to do a
1:05.8	cheeky 60 second biography. Sasha is the clock, the timer at the ready.
1:10.9	Yes it's ready Kelly. Okay. So are it's ready, Kelly.
1:13.0	Okay.
1:14.0	So are you ready?
1:15.0	I am. Are you steady?
1:17.0	Go.
1:18.0	Roger Leoncovello was born in April, 1857 in Naples and started studying music at the conservatory there in 1866 during his adolescence
1:24.2	he supported himself by giving cafe concerts, piano and seeing lessons.
1:27.0	In his early 20s he moved to Cairo with his uncle and started teaching piano to the brother
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