Puccini: La rondine (1921 final version) BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers & Carlo Rizzi

• Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924): La rondine (1921 version) Act 1:
• 1 Puccini: La rondine (1921 version), Act 1 Ah! no! no! / Non dite questo! (Yvette, Bianca, Suzy, Prunier, Magda, Lisette, Rambaldo) 04:48
• 2 Puccini: La rondine (1921 version), Act 1 Chi il bel sogno di Doretta (Prunier, Magda) 02:29
• 3 Puccini: La rondine (1921 version), Act 1 Aria Chi il bel sogno di Doretta (Magda, All) 02:31
• 4 Puccini: La rondine (1921 version), Act 1 No... Adesso non burlatemi (Magda, Périchaud, Crébillon, Gobin, Rambaldo, Yvette, Prunier) 02:20
• 5 Puccini: La rondine (1921 version), Act 1 Un momento: scusi, ecco (Lisette, Rambaldo, Magda) 01:14
• 6 Puccini: La rondine (1921 version), Act 1 Come fate a sopportarla? (Prunier, Magda, Bianca, Yvette, Suzy) 01:15
• 7 Puccini: La rondine (1921 version), Act 1 Denaro! Nient’altro che denaro (Magda, Bianca, Yvette, Suzy) 06:06
• 8 Puccini: La rondine (1921 version), Act 1 E poi? / Basta, e finito (Yvette, Magda, Bianca, Suzy, Prunier) 02:11
• 9 Puccini: La rondine (1921 version), Act 1 Che uomo difficile (Yvette, Bianca, Prunier, Magda, Suzy, Rambaldo, Ruggero) 02:16
• 10 Puccini: La rondine (1921 version), Act 1 Forse, come la rondine (Prunier, Magda, Rambaldo, Ruggero) 01:24
• 11 Puccini: La rondine (1921 version), Act 1 Poeta raffinato, dite un po’ (Rambaldo, Prunier, Lisette, Yvette, Bianca, Suzy, Gobin, Crébillon, Ruggero) 01:54
• 12 Puccini: La rondine (1921 version), Act 1 Le Bal Musard! / A Frascati! (Yvette, Bianca, Suzy, Lisette, Magda, Rambaldo, Prunier, Périchaud, Crébillon, Gobin) 02:20
• 13 Puccini: La rondine (1921 version), Act 1 Forse, come la rondine (Magda) 01:16
• 14 Puccini: La rondine (1921 version), Act 1 Duet T’amo! / Menti! (Prunier, Lisette) 03:54
• 15 Puccini: La rondine (1921 version), Act 1 Chi mi riconoscerebbe? (Magda) 01:52
• Giacomo Puccini: La rondine (1921 version) Act 2:
• 16 Puccini: La rondine (1921 version), Act 2 Presto! Presto! / Fiori freschi (Chorus) 02:05
• 17 Puccini: La rondine (1921 version), Act 2 Chi e? Mai vista! (Young men, Magda) 02:10
• 18 Puccini: La rondine (1921 version), Act 2 Scusatemi... Scusate (Magda, Ruggero) 02:44
• 19 Puccini: La rondine (1921 version), Act 2 Nella dolce carezza della danza (Magda, Ruggero, Prunier, Lisette, Chorus) 01:45
• 20 Puccini: La rondine (1921 version), Act 2 Deh! scendi dall’Olimpo! (Chorus, Magda, Ruggero, Prunier, Lisette) 02:38
• 21 Puccini: La rondine (1921 version), Act 2 Che caldo! Che sete! (Magda, Ruggero) 02:40
• 22 Puccini: La rondine (1921 version), Act 2 Perché mai cercare di saper (Magda, Ruggero, Chorus) 02:52
• 23 Puccini: La rondine (1921 version), Act 2 Dio! Lei! (Lisette, Prunier, Ruggero, Magda) 02:42
• 24 Puccini: La rondine (1921 version), Act 2 Quartet A chi impera sul mondo... Bevo al tuo fresco sorriso (Ruggero, Magda, Lisette, Prunier, Chorus) 04:00
• 25 Puccini: La rondine (1921 version), Act 2 Rambaldo! / Ah! Maiutate (Prunier, Magda, Lisette, Rambaldo, Chorus) 02:15
• 26 Puccini: La rondine (1921 version), Act 2 Nella trepida luce dun mattin (Distant voice) 01:20
• 27 Puccini: La rondine (1921 version), Act 2 Paulette!... Mia Paulette (Ruggero, Magda) 02:20
• Giacomo Puccini: La rondine (1921 version) Act 3:
• 28 Puccini: La rondine (1921 version), Act 3 Prelude 03:47
• 29 Puccini: La rondine (1921 version), Act 3 Ah! / Il nostro nido e nido di baci! (Magda, Ruggero) 03:04
• 30 Puccini: La rondine (1921 version), Act 3 Chi ce? / Chi e la (Magda, Ruggero, Roro, Mariette, Fleury) 01:37
• 31 Puccini: La rondine (1921 version), Act 3 O mia povera cara (Ruggero, Magda) 01:45
• 32 Puccini: La rondine (1921 version), Act 3 Dimmi che vuoi seguirmi alla mia casa (Ruggero) 02:03
• 33 Puccini: La rondine (1921 version), Act 3 Che piu dirgli?... Che fare? (Magda) 01:38
• 34 Puccini: La rondine (1921 version), Act 3 E qui? / Non so! (Lisette, Prunier) 03:43
• 35 Puccini: La rondine (1921 version), Act 3 No! Non m’inganno! (Lisette, Prunier, the Butler, Magda) 03:35
• 36 Puccini: La rondine (1921 version), Act 3 Finalmente! / E una donna felice (Lisette, Prunier, Magda) 02:37
• 37 Puccini: La rondine (1921 version), Act 3 Che volete da me? (Magda, Rambaldo) 03:16
• 38 Puccini: La rondine (1921 version), Act 3 Amore mio! / No! taci! (Magda, Ruggero) 01:56
• 39 Puccini: La rondine (1921 version), Act 3 Non maledire, ascolta (Magda, Ruggero, Lisette) 05:11
• Giacomo Puccini: La rondine (1919 version), Act 1 Aria Chi il bel sogno di Doretta (Prunier, Magda, All):
• 40 Puccini: La rondine (1919 version), Act 1 Aria Chi il bel sogno di Doretta (Prunier, Magda, All) 05:15
• Giacomo Puccini: La rondine (1919 version), Act 1 Duet T’amo! / Menti! (Prunier, Lisette):
• 41 Puccini: La rondine (1919 version), Act 1 Duet T’amo! / Menti! (Prunier, Lisette) 04:43
• Giacomo Puccini: La rondine (1919 version), Act 2 Quartet Ed ora bevo allamore (Prunier, Magda, Ruggero, Lisette):
• 42 Puccini: La rondine (1919 version), Act 2 Quartet Ed ora bevo allamore (Prunier, Magda, Ruggero, Lisette) 03:43
• Giacomo Puccini: La rondine (1919 version), Act 3 Amore mio!... Mia madre! (Ruggero, Magda, Prunier):
• 43 Puccini: La rondine (1919 version), Act 3 Amore mio!... Mia madre! (Ruggero, Magda, Prunier) 09:50
• Giacomo Puccini: La rondine (1921 version), Act 1 Aria Chi il bel sogno di Doretta (Magda, All) (Concert version):
• 44 Puccini: La rondine (1921 version), Act 1 Aria Chi il bel sogno di Doretta (Magda, All) (Concert version) 03:06
• Total Runtime 02:08:10

Info zu Puccini: La rondine (1921 final version)

Erleben Sie zum ersten Mal die Fassung, die als Puccinis endgültige Fassung angesehen werden kann.

Puccinis letzte Fassung von „La rondine“ aus dem Jahr 1921, die im April 1924 in Fiume uraufgeführt wurde, bietet die opulenteste und tragischste Version dieser beliebten Oper. Puccini überarbeitete die wichtigsten Ensembles der bekannten Fassung von 1917 grundlegend und komponierte neue Musik für den ersten und dritten Akt, was in einem gewaltsamen Höhepunkt gipfelt, in dem Ruggero die untröstliche Magda verlässt.

Carlo Rizzi dirigiert die Weltpremiere-Aufnahme der vollständigen Fassung von 1921. Ermonela Jaho brilliert als Magda, an ihrer Seite sind Iván Ayón-Rivas als ihr Geliebter Ruggero und Nicola Alaimo als ihr Gönner Rambaldo zu sehen. Juan Francisco Gatell und Ellie Neate vervollständigen die Hauptbesetzung als Prunier und Lisette. Mattia Olivieri singt Auszüge aus der Fassung von 1919, in der die Rolle des Prunier für einen Bariton geschrieben wurde.

Puccinis „La rondine“, das am 27. März 1917 im Grand Théâtre de Monte Carlo uraufgeführt wurde, brauchte lange, um den Platz zu erreichen, den es heute im Opernrepertoire einnimmt. Seit ihrer Uraufführung wurde sie häufig als Operette abgetan, wobei Puccini mit der uns heute bekannten Fassung der Oper nie wirklich zufrieden war. Seine dritte und letzte Fassung, die auf seiner Gesangspartitur von 1921 basiert, unterscheidet sich deutlich von der Fassung von 1917. Opera Rara hat nun seine letzte Fassung restauriert und eine Aufführungsausgabe erstellt sowie die vollständige dritte Fassung aufgenommen, wobei neues Material aus der zweiten Fassung im Anhang enthalten ist.

Die Geschichte geht weiter…

Diese beiden späteren Fassungen von Puccinis „La rondine“ galten lange Zeit in ihrer vollständigen Form als unaufführbar – die Orchesterpartitur der zweiten Fassung fehlte, und die Orchesterpartitur der dritten ging während des Zweiten Weltkriegs bei einem Brand in den Büros des Verlags Sonzogno verloren. Unter der Aufsicht des künstlerischen Leiters von Opera Rara, Carlo Rizzi, wird jedoch die Restaurierung und Rekonstruktion aller Fassungen der Oper vom Musikwissenschaftler Ditlev Rindom vorgenommen, dem Herausgeber der neuen kritischen Ausgabe der Oper bei Ricordi, in Zusammenarbeit mit Martin Fitzpatrick, der Puccinis Orchestrierung in den Passagen, in denen sie fehlt, rekonstruiert hat. Trotz erheblicher musikalischer und dramaturgischer Änderungen enthalten beide späteren Fassungen von „La rondine“ großartige Musik des reifen Puccini: Musik, die dem heutigen Publikum völlig unbekannt ist. Zusammen bieten die beiden Fassungen eine neue Perspektive auf ein Werk, das sich mittlerweile fest im Puccini-Kanon etabliert hat. Opera Rara bietet die seltene Gelegenheit, völlig unbekannte Musik eines bedeutenden Opernkomponisten in seiner Blütezeit zu hören.

Ermonela Jaho, Sopran (Magda de Civry)
Iván Ayón-Rivas, Tenor (Ruggero Lastouc)
Juan Francisco Gatell, Tenor (Prunier)
Ellie Neate, Sopran (Lisette)
Nicola Alaimo, Bariton (Rambaldo Fernandez)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
BBC Singers
Carlo Rizzi, künstlerischer Leiter

Carlo Rizzi
holds a long-standing reputation as one of the world’s foremost operatic conductors, in demand as a guest artist at the world’s most prestigious venues and festivals. Equally at home in the opera house and the concert hall, his vast repertoire spans everything from the foundation works of the operatic and symphonic canon to rarities by Bellini, Cimarosa and Donizetti to Giordano, Pizzetti and Montemezzi. Combining a deep expertise in the vocal art with theatrical flair and the practical collaborative skills honed over decades of experience in the world’s finest theatres, he is acclaimed by singers and audiences alike as a master of the operatic craft.

Born in Milan, Rizzi studied at the city’s conservatoire, and following his graduation was employed as a repetiteur at the legendary Teatro alla Scala. He launched his conducting career in 1982 with a production of Donizetti’s L’ajo nell’imbarazzo, and has now performed over a hundred operas, with a broad repertoire that is rich in Italian works in addition to the major titles of Mozart, Wagner, Strauss, Britten, Mussorgsky, Martinů and Janáček.

Since 2019 Rizzi is Music Director of Opera Rara, the UK-based company devoted to resurrecting and returning to the repertoire undiscovered and undervalued works from opera’s celebrated and neglected composers, and since 2015, he has been Conductor Laureate of the Welsh National Opera, following his tenure as Music Director (1992-2001 and 2004-8) during which he was widely credited with overseeing a dramatic increase in the company’s artistic standards and international profile.

He also has held long- standing relationships with the Teatro alla Scala, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and the Metropolitan Opera in New York, and his career has seen him leading numerous productions at the most distinguished operatic addresses. Rizzi is also critically acclaimed as a symphonic conductor with distinguished orchestras around the world including Halle, the London Philharmonic, the Filarmonica della Scala, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Netherlands Philharmonic, Orchestra i Pomeriggi Musicali, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Bergen Philharmonic, Hungarian National Philharmonic, Orquestra Simfònica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, and the orchestra of the National Arts Centre, Ottawa.

In the 26/27 season he records Mercandante’s ‘Il Campo de’ Crociati’ with Opera Rara, returns to the Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro, to lead a new production of Le Siege de Corinthe, opens the Staatsoper Berlin’s season with Spontini’s La Vestale, leads a new production of Puccini’s Edgar at Teatro Regio di Torino, and returns to the Metropolitan Opera New York for Cherubini’s Medea, to Opernhaus Zurich for Tosca, and to the New National Theatre Tokyo for Macbeth.

Highlights of recent seasons have included returns to the Metropolitan Opera to conduct Turandot and Madama Butterfly, Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette at Teatro Real Madrid, Respighi’s La Fiamma (Deutsche Oper Berlin), Rigoletto and Turandot (Wiener Staatsoper), La Boheme (Bayerische Staatsoper), Il Trittico (Opera National De Paris) and Il Trovatore (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden). Symphonic appearances include performances with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7 with the Welsh National Opera Orchestra, concerts with the National Symphony Orchestra (Dublin), Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia. As part of the BBC Proms series, Rizzi closed the season conducting the Welsh National Opera Orchestra at the Bristol Beacon. With Opera Rara, Rizzi performed and recorded the newly restored final 1921 version of Puccini’s La Rondine with the BBC Symphony and completed (as pianist) their project to record Donizetti’s complete songs.

Carlo Rizzi’s extensive discography includes complete recordings of Gounod’s Faust, Janáček’s Katya Kabanova (in English), and Verdi’s Rigoletto and Un ballo in maschera, all with Welsh National Opera. He appears on a Deutsche Grammophon CD and DVD of Verdi’s La Traviata, recorded live at the Salzburg Festival with Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazón, and the Vienna Philharmonic. He has also recorded numerous recital albums with renowned singers including Joseph Calleja, Juan Diego Flórez, Edita Gruberová, Jennifer Larmore, Ernesto Palacio, Olga Borodina, and Thomas Hampson. His recordings for Opera Rara include Mercadante’s Il proscritto (2023), Leoncavallo’s Zingari (2022), a pair of Gramophone Award–nominated discs with Joyce El-Khoury and Michael Spyres, and the 2024 release of Donizetti’s L’esule di Roma, which received widespread critical acclaim. In the same year, Signum Records released his album of Puccini’s complete symphonic works, featuring world-premiere recordings of his own orchestral suites from Tosca and Madama Butterfly, conducted with the Welsh National Opera Orchestra. Rizzi has also recorded symphonic works by Bizet, de Falla, Ravel, Respighi, and Schubert with major orchestras including the London and Netherlands Philharmonic.

Shortlisted as a finalist for ‘conductor of the Year’ in the 2024 International Opera Awards, Rizzi was also awarded the honour of ‘Grande Ufficiale’ (Grand Officer) of the ‘Ordine della Stella d’Italia’ (Order of the Star of Italy) for his commitment and contribution to promoting Italian music and culture internationally.

Booklet für Puccini: La rondine (1921 final version)