Puccini's forgotten love child finally gets its glow-up in Venice's most haunted opera house.
This 2008 version of Puccini's LA RONDINE (The Swallow) features acclaimed conductor Carlo Rizzi and polished theatre-direction from Graham Vick, recorded at the Teatro La Fenice, in Venice.
Direction
Graham Vick strips away kitsch, finds emotional truth
Production
La Fenice's acoustics are basically a main character
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Puccini considered La Rondine his 'ugly duckling' and kept rewriting it; he died before settling on an ending, leaving three versions.
La Fenice famously burned down twice; this 2008 recording captures the rebuilt house's controversial modern acoustics that purists still argue about.
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