Special offer. 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
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...
Special offer. 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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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...
About
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).
Contents and tracklist
- Maya Dashuk (soprano), Andrea Patucelli (bass-baritone), Fernando Luis Ciuffo (bass), Emanuele Giannino (tenor), Fabio Sartori (tenor), Marzio Giossi (baritone), Svetla Vassileva (soprano), Giorgio Berrugi (tenor), Polina Volfson (soprano), Alessandra Meozzi (soprano), Annunziata Vestri (mezzo-soprano)
- Puccini Festival Chorus, Puccini Festival Orchestra
- Alberto Veronesi
- Recorded: 8, 10, 16 August 2007
- Recording Venue: Torre del Lago, Lucca, Italy
Awards and reviews
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.
