Puccini: La Rondine

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Puccini: La Rondine

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Naxos

Catalogue No:

8660253-54

Series:

Opera Classics

Discs:

2

Release date:

27th July 2009

Barcode:

0730099025379

Length:

1 hour 42 minutes

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Puccini: La Rondine

Svetla Vassileva, Maya Dashuk, Fabio Sartori, Emanuele Giannino, Marzio Giossi, Fernando Ciuffo, Giorgio Berrugi, Andrea Patucelli, Polina Volfson, Alessandra Meozzi & Annunziata Vestri

Orchestra and Chorus of the Puccini Festival, Alberto Veronesi

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Although one of his most consistently lyrical operas, La rondine (The Swallow) remains one of Puccini’s least known.

Dissatisfied with the result of his work, Puccini wrote three versions, with two different endings, and continued to make further revisions up to his death in 1924.

The innovative 2007 production at the Torre del Lago Giacomo Puccini Festival, presented here, is in effect a fourth version, which combines Acts I and II of the first version (1917), with Lorenzo Ferrero’s 1994 orchestration of parts of the Finale of Act III of the incomplete third version (1921), some of which had survived only in piano score, as well as Ruggero’s Act I romanza, ‘Parigi è la città dei desideri’, from the second version (1920).

Giacomo Puccini: La rondine

playAct I: Prelude

playAct I: Ah! no! no!… Non dite questo (Yvette, Bianca, Prunier, Magda, Lisette, Suzy, Rambaldo)

playAct I: Chi il bel sogno di Doretta (Prunier, Magda)

playAct I: No… adesso non burlatemi (Magda, Perichaud, Crebillon, Gobin, Rambaldo, Prunier, Yvette)

playAct I: Un momento scusi, ecco (Lisette, Rambaldo, Magda)

playAct I: Come fate a sopportarla? (Prunier, Magda, Bianca, Yvette, Suzy)

playAct I: Denaro… denaro… nient'altro che denaro! (Magda, Bianca, Yvette, Suzy)

playAct I: E poi?… Basta… E finito… (Yvette, Magda, Bianca, Suzy, Prunier)

playAct I: Ah! Ruggero Lastouc… (Rambaldo, Ruggero, Prunier, Yvette, Bianca, Suzy, Magda)

playAct I: Forse come la rondine (Prunier, Magda, Rambaldo, Ruggero)

playAct I: Parigi! (Ruggero)

playAct I: Poeta raffinato (Rambaldo, Prunier, Lisette, Yvette, Bianca, Suzy, Gobin, Crebillon, Magda)

playAct I: Buonasera (Rambaldo, Magda, All)

playAct I: …Forse come la rondine (Magda)

playAct I: T'amo… menti! (Prunier, Lisette)

playAct I: Ma si, chi mi riconoscerebbe? (Magda)

playAct II: Via, su, presto! (Florists, Students, Waiters, Dressmakers, Young Men, Painters, Two Lovers, Grisettes, Drinkers, Adolfo, Georgette, A Young Man, Gabriella, Lolette)

playAct II: Chi e? - Mai vista! - Esita! (Students, Magda)

playAct II: Scusatemi… scusate (Magda, Ruggero)

playAct II: Nella dolce carezza della danza (Magda, Ruggero, Chorus)

playAct II: Ti prego: dignita, grazia, contegno!… (Prunier, Lisette)

playAct II: Che caldo! Che sete! (Magda, Ruggero)

playAct II: Perche' mai cercate di saper (Magda, Ruggero, Adolfo, Rabonier, Chorus)

playAct II: Dio!… Lei!… Chi? (Lisette, Prunier, Ruggero, Magda)

playAct II: Gia che il caso ci unisce (Ruggero, Magda, Lisette, Prunier)

playAct II: Bevo al tuo fresco sorriso (Ruggero, Magda, Lisette, Prunier, Chorus)

playAct II: Rambaldo! (Prunier, Magda, Lisette, Ruggero, Rambaldo, Chorus)

playAct II: Nella trepida luce d'un mattin (Soprano Voices)

playAct II: Paulette!… Un momento! (Ruggero, Magda)

playAct III: Prelude

playAct III: Ah!… Il nostro nido e nido di baci (Magda, Ruggero)

playAct III: Che c'e?… chi e la? (Magda, Ruggero, Fleury, Mariette, Roro)

playAct III: O mia povera cara… (Ruggero, Magda)

playAct III: Dimmi che vuoi seguirmi (Ruggero)

playAct III: Che piu dirgli?… (Magda)

playAct III: E qui? Non so! (Lisette, Prunier)

playAct III: No! Non m'inganno (Lisette, Prunier, Servant)

playAct III: Ma come, voi vi ricordate ancora (Magda, Lisette, Prunier)

playAct III: Mi dia da fare subito! (Lisette, Magda)

playAct III: Che volete da me? (Magda, Rambaldo)

playAct III: Son di moda a Parigi (Rambaldo)

playAct III: Lui!… Lui!… Vi supplico! (Magda, Ruggero)

playAct III: Non maledire, ascolta (Magda, Ruggero)

playAct III: O mia Lisette! (Magda, Lisette)

Gramophone Magazine

December 2009

“This live performance has plenty of energy. As Magda, Svetla Vassileva… rises to the challenge, and brings a considerable amount of feeling to the anguish of the final scene. As always the big ensemble in the dance-hall scene in Act 2 goes with a terrific swing, Alberto Veronesi leading the Puccini Festival Orchestra with obvious relish. Anyone with a keen interest in Puccini's work will want to hear this.”

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