favorites. Leoncavallo also composed songs, most famously "Mattinata", which he wrote for the Gramophone Company (which became HMV) with Caruso's unique voice in mind. On 8 April 1904, Leoncavallo accompanied Caruso at the piano as they recorded the song. On 8 December 1905 he recorded five of his own pieces for the reproducing piano Welte-Mignon. Leoncavallo was the librettist for most of his own operas. Many considered him the greatest Italian librettist of his time after Boito. Among Leoncavallo's libretti for other composers is his contribution to the libretto for Puccini's Manon Lescaut. Operas Pagliacci – 21 May 1892, Teatro Dal Verme, Milan. I Medici – 9 November 1893, Teatro Dal Verme, Milan). (The first part of the uncompleted trilogy, Crepusculum.) Chatterton – 10 March 1896, Teatro Argentina, Rome. (Revision of a work written in 1876.) La bohème – 6 May 1897, Teatro La Fenice, Venice. Zazà – 10 November 1900, Teatro Lirico, Milan. Der Roland von Berlin – 13 December 1904, Königliches Opernhaus, Berlin. Maïa – 15 January 1910, Teatro Costanzi, Rome. Zingari – 16 September 1912, Hippodrome, London. Mimi Pinson – 1913, Teatro Massimo, Palermo. (Revision of La bohème.) Mameli – 27 April 1916, Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa. (Note that the Fondazione Leoncavallo classes this as an opera rather than an operetta.) Edipo re – 13 December 1920, Chicago Opera. (Produced after the composer's death, at very least orchestration not by Leoncavallo, completed or perhaps composed by Giovanni Pennacchio.) Operettas La jeunesse de Figaro – 1906, United States. Malbrouck – 19 January 1910, Teatro Nazionale, Rome. La reginetta delle rose – 24 June 1912, Teatro Costanzi, Rome. Are You There? – 1 November 1913, Prince of Wales Theatre, London. La candidata – 6 February 1915, Teatro Nazionale, Rome. Prestami tua moglie – 2 September 1916, Casino delle Terme, Montecatini. (English title: Lend me your wife.) Goffredo Mameli – 27 April 1916, Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa. A chi la giarrettiera? – 16 October 1919, Teatro Adriano, Rome. (English title: Whose Garter Is This?) Produced after the composer's death. Il primo bacio – 29 April 1923 Salone di cura, Montecatini. Produced after the composer's death. La maschera nuda – 26 June 1925 Teatro Politeama, Naples. Produced after the composer's death. Other works La nuit de mai – poème symphonique for tenor and orchestra after Alfred de Musset, Paris 1886 (also performed and recorded in 1990 and – with Plácido Domingo