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Puccini: La Rondine / Vassileva, Dashuk, Sartori

Puccini / Vassileva / Dashuk / Sartori / Veronesi
Release Date: 04/28/2009 
Label:  Naxos   Catalog #: 2110266  
Composer:  Giacomo Puccini
Performer:  Alessandra Meozzi,  Polina Volfson,  Andrea Patucelli,  Fabio Sartori,   ... 
Conductor:  Alberto Veronesi
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Puccini Festival Chorus,  Puccini Festival Orchestra
Number of Discs: 1 
Recorded in: Stereo 
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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 on this DVD, 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 Read more (1920).

With a sparkling score reminiscent of Franz Lehár and Richard Strauss, La rondine, set in mid-19th century Paris, tells the story of Magda de Civry, a young courtesan who falls in love one evening with Ruggero Lastouc, the handsome son of a childhood friend of her protector, Rambaldo Fernandez. Although Magda believes that her compromised social position prevents their marrying, in Puccini’s third version it is Ruggero who leaves Magda when he discovers that she is the mistress of Rambaldo. - Naxos

Giacomo Puccini
LA RONDINE

Magda – Svetla Vassileva
Lisette – Maya Dashuk
Ruggero – Fabio Sartori
Prunier – Emanuele Giannino
Rambaldo – Marzio Giossi
Périchaud – Fernando Ciuffo
Gobin – Giorgio Berrugi
Crébillon – Andrea Patucelli
Yvette – Polina Volfson
Bianca – Alessandra Meozzi
Suzy – Annunziata Vestri
Fleury – Katia De Sarlo
Mariette – Chang Chiung Wen
Roro – Elisabetta Lombardo
Un maggiordomo – Alessando Manghesi

Puccini Festival Chorus and Orchestra
Alberto Veronesi, conductor

Recorded live from the 53rd Puccini Festival, Torre del Lago, Italy, on 8, 10 and 16 August 2007

Picture format: NTSC 16:9
Sound format: Dolby Digital 2.0 / Dolby Surround 5.0
Region code: 0 (worldwide)
Subtitles: English, Italian
Running time: 111 mins
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Works on This Recording

1. La Rondine by Giacomo Puccini
Performer:  Alessandra Meozzi (Voice), Polina Volfson (Voice), Andrea Patucelli (Bass Baritone),
Fabio Sartori (Tenor), Maya Dashuk (Soprano), Fernando Ciuffo (Bass),
Svetla Vassileva (Soprano), Marzio Giossi (Baritone), Emanuele Giannino (Voice),
Giorgio Berrugi (Voice), Annunziata Vestri (Voice)
Conductor:  Alberto Veronesi
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Puccini Festival Chorus,  Puccini Festival Orchestra
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1917; Italy 
 Date of Recording: 08/2007 
Venue:  Torre del Lago, Italy 

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