The rehearsals are the chance for the cast get to know the props in "I Pagliacci."

"Leoncavallo also travelled to Egito (where his uncle was the chancellor news department chief) before going to Paris, where he taught music, played piano in cafes and composed for vaudevilles -- a notivague atmosphere that he recreated in his opera La Bohème, contemporary unfortunate of the opera with the same name by Puccini." (Perpetuo)