Mattinate playlist
Mattinata, mattinate Mattinata is a famous romance that Ruggero Leoncavallo – known for the opera Pagliacci – wrote specially for the gramophone at the invitation of the Gramophone Company. It was performed by Enrico Caruso in 1904 with Leoncavallo himself at the piano. Since then it has become a warhorse for tenors and male voices of all eras. The title also evokes other “mornings” in the anthology, bearing witness to a popular subgenre similar to the serenade.