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* CompleteMonster: The [[EvilCripple devious, hunchbacked]] Tonio is an UrExample of an [[MonsterClown evil clown]] in Western media. A ManipulativeBastard par excellence, Tonio deigns to ruin the life of his co-actor Nedda after his first attempt to seduce her--and subsequently rape her--fail. Tonio poisons the mind of Nedda's husband, Canio, driving him to homicidal insanity with the revelation Nedda is unfaithful to him, before sitting back and watching with cruel satisfaction as the mad Canio murders both Nedda and her lover on-stage. In the original script and many productions afterward, Tonio ends the opera by gloating that "[[TheBadGuyWins the comedy is finished!]]" to seal in how thoroughly he has destroyed the main cast. (Although Tito Gobbi, in his book ''The World Of Italian Opera'', suggests that singers playing Tonio should have a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment at the end.)
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* CompleteMonster: The [[EvilCripple devious, hunchbacked]] Tonio is an UrExample of an [[MonsterClown evil clown]] in Western media. A ManipulativeBastard par excellence, Tonio deigns to ruin the life of his co-actor Nedda after his first attempt to seduce her--and subsequently rape her--fail. Tonio poisons the mind of Nedda's husband, Canio, driving him to homicidal insanity with the revelation Nedda is unfaithful to him, before sitting back and watching with cruel satisfaction as the mad Canio murders both Nedda and her lover on-stage. In the original script and many productions afterward, Tonio ends the opera by gloating that "[[TheBadGuyWins the comedy is finished!]]" to seal in how thoroughly he has destroyed the main cast. (Although Tito Gobbi, in his book ''The World Of Italian Opera'', suggests that singers playing Tonio should have a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment at the end. Gobbi, who'd played Tonio, always felt that Tonio wanted to humiliate Nedda, but never wanted it to go THAT far.)
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* CompleteMonster: The [[EvilCripple devious, hunchbacked]] Tonio is an UrExample of an [[MonsterClown evil clown]] in Western media. A ManipulativeBastard par excellence, Tonio deigns to ruin the life of his co-actor Nedda after his first attempt to seduce her--and subsequently rape her--fail. Tonio poisons the mind of Nedda's husband, Canio, driving him to homicidal insanity with the revelation Nedda is unfaithful to him, before sitting back and watching with cruel satisfaction as the mad Canio murders both Nedda and her lover on-stage. In the original script and many productions afterward, Tonio ends the opera by gloating that "[[TheBadGuyWins the comedy is finished!]]" to seal in how thoroughly he has destroyed the main cast.
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* CompleteMonster: The [[EvilCripple devious, hunchbacked]] Tonio is an UrExample of an [[MonsterClown evil clown]] in Western media. A ManipulativeBastard par excellence, Tonio deigns to ruin the life of his co-actor Nedda after his first attempt to seduce her--and subsequently rape her--fail. Tonio poisons the mind of Nedda's husband, Canio, driving him to homicidal insanity with the revelation Nedda is unfaithful to him, before sitting back and watching with cruel satisfaction as the mad Canio murders both Nedda and her lover on-stage. In the original script and many productions afterward, Tonio ends the opera by gloating that "[[TheBadGuyWins the comedy is finished!]]" to seal in how thoroughly he has destroyed the main cast. (Although Tito Gobbi, in his book ''The World Of Italian Opera'', suggests that singers playing Tonio should have a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment at the end.)
