La rondine : opera in three acts / by Giacomo Puccini ; libretto by Giuseppe Adami after the German original Die Schwalbe by Alfred Maria Willner and Heinz Reichert ; from the Deutsche Opera Berlin.
Title from opening frames. Dinara Alieva (Magda de Civry) ; Charles Castronovo (Ruggero Lastouc) ; Alexandra Hutton (Lisette) ; Alvaro Zambrano (Prunier) ; Orchestra and Chorus of the Deutsche Opera Berlin ; Roberto Rizzi Brignoli, conductor. Recorded in performance Deutsche Oper Berlin. Deutsche Oper Berlin. Program notes and synopsis in English, German and French in container.
Summary:
Possibly the least performed of Giacomo Puccini's later operas, but is still just as much a masterwork as its more performed counterparts. Originally conceived as the composer's first operetta, the work is an artful blend of opera and operetta, with a lighter mood than Puccini's other works.
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