Preparing the make up for "I Pagliacci," by Ruggero Leoncavallo.

"[Leoncavallo] negotiations with the editor Giulio Ricordi for a debut of I Medici, nevertheless, didn't come through, and after the success of Cavalleria Rusticana, Leoncavallo decided to approach his contestant Edoardo Sanzogno - editor of [Pietro] Mascagni's opera - with a libretto of I Pagliacci, because, as Wagner did, Leoncavallo was also a librettist of his own operas (having yet collaborated with Manon Lescaut's libretto, by Puccini)." (Perpetuo)