The lighting also helps to create the dramatic atmosphere in "I Pagliacci."

"Beyond the aesthetics similarities, a destiny's irony brought together Leoncavallo and Mascagni. Following the example of his colleague, he created several scores after I Pagliacci, without ever repeating the same success. Once in a while, famous tenors remember of recording his Mattinata, song composed, in 1904, to attend the requests of the growing music industry -- ordered by Gramophone Company (now HMV), it was registered the mythic Caruso with the composer himself in the piano. At the same way as Mascagni, Leoncavallo ended as a composer of 'one-opera wonder'." (Perpetuo)