Giacomo Puccini, La rondine

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Florence, Teatro del Maggio musicale, 22 October 2017

La rondine, a flimsy work in pastel colours

One hundred years after its debut in Montecarlo, a rarely performed work by the most famous Tuscan composer, Giacomo Puccini, arrived on stage in Florence. La rondine (The Swallow) is best known for a single song (“Doretta’s Dream”). It’s not a blessed opera.

Commissioned by Vienna Carltheater as an operetta, it became a true opera instead. Then there were problems with Ricordi, Puccini’s publisher’s, but above all La rondine was presented in 1917 at the high point of WW1…

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