Opera Imaginaire - 01 Pagliacci

Vesti la Giubba (a film by Ken Lidster): A dark comedy version of Pagliacci in stop-motion animation set to that opera’s most famous aria. The characters are portrayed as circus-style clowns and a “happy” ending is tacked on in which Nedda’s ghost reconciles with Canio. The framing sequence tries to trick you into thinking the aria is sung by Caruso (we hear the beginning of his classic recording of it) but once the cartoon proper starts, the voice is actually Franco Corelli’s.