La Rondine - Teatro alla Scala (2024) - La Rondine - Teatro alla Scala (2024)

Description

New production.

Riccardo Chailly continues his reconnaissance of the Puccini catalogue in the centennial of the composer’s death with one of his less frequently performed titles. A work that was long and difficult to create, La rondine is Puccini’s response to a request for an operetta from the Carltheater of Vienna in 1914: later re-thinkings and world events—most notably the outbreak of the First World War—transformed the project, which was finally premiered in Monte-Carlo in 1917. The ambiguous nature of the opera initially compromised its audience appeal, but the agonizing desperation of the melancholic score, running under a surface of sublime elegance, is now better appreciated, as did Gianandrea Gavazzeni, who conducted it in 1994.

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