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He has a wife, Nedda, who is lusted after by the villain Tonio and truly loved by a local boy called Silvio. When Nedda rejects Tonio’s advances and is spied in Silvio’s embrace, Tonio tells all to husband Canio and the stage is set – literally – for double murder and deep tragedy.
Nedda, hoping to keep to the performance, calls Canio by his stage name "Pagliaccio" to remind him of the audience's presence. He answers with his arietta : " No! Pagliaccio non son!
First we are introduced to Nedda, who reacts with fear and dignity to Canio’s threats, singing a beautiful “Ballatella,” a bird song her mother used to entertain her with when she was a child.
“How poetic!” she answers. “Don’t mock me, Nedda!” He acknowledges his physical disformity (and the melody he sings will return in the cellos when he’s Taddeo in the play – another of those “real” life/”stage” life moments -) but confesses he dreams of hearing her say… “I love you.” Nedda interrupts.
Jul 1, 2002 · Nedda’s aria “Stridono lassu” from Leoncavallo’s I Pagliacci. In Pagliacci, Leoncavallo has written an opera where all of the principals are blameworthy, yet all of them engage our sympathy to some degree. Whatever her faults, Nedda remains true to herself in the face of death.
Canio is drunk, and erratically attempts to carry on with the clown show. With an intentional undercurrent of malice, Taddeo sarcastically assures Pagliaccio of his wife's innocence, intentionally fueling Canio's real-life jealousy. Straying from the script, Canio demands that Nedda reveal her lover's name.
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In an act of revenge, Tonio tells Canio that Nedda is having an affair like he suspected. During a performance, Canio confronts Nedda, and stabs her. Silvio attempts to save Nedda, running up on stage, but gets stabbed by Canio as well.
