A holiday which celebrate
A holiday which celebrates the Virgin Mary's ascension to heaven marks the setting of this opera. The female lead in this opera sings the aria Qual fiamma avea nel guardo before striking her admirer with a whip. The opera begins with the aria Si Puo sung by Tonio which implores the audience that the main characters are in fact real people. A famous recording of this opera which saw Enrico Caruso as the main character was the first ever to sell a million copies. This opera's first act ends with the aria Vesti la giubba sung by Canio. Canio suffers as the audience cheers in, for ten points, this Leoncavallo opera in which a man playing the titular clown stabs his wife and her lover.
A holiday which celebrates the Virgin Mary's ascension to heaven marks the setting of this opera.
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