Puccini: La Rondine
by Graham Vick
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Actor: Carlo Rizzi, Emanuele Giannino, Fernando Portari, Fiorenza Cedolins, Sandra PastranaDirector: Graham Vick
Brand: Naxos OF America INC
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); German (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); Italian (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Italian (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Classical, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 106 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-08-26
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Arthaus Musik
Movie Reviews of Puccini: La Rondine
Movie Review: Beautifully staged La Rondine
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw this production from La Fenice at the Charles Theater in Baltimore. It was not a live broadcast, but part of a series of opera productions from La Scala and this one from La Fenice broadcast to movie theaters in the US.
While the setting for the story has been updated, the staging was not at all bizarre (as some directors have done to beautiful operas and destroyed the production in so doing). The singing is very good from singers that are not well known in this country - but so what! There are many European singers who never appear in the US and they are outstanding artists.
A word about the Marta Domingo production. I saw it at the Washington Opera and, while it is a beautifully staged production, the ending is very strange, not what Puccini intended. Marta Domingo has the heroine commit suicide by walking into the sea at the end of the opera. In fact, she decides that she can't marry her young lover and decides to return to the elderly Rambaldo, the wealthy man with whom she was having a long time affair.
Puccini would not have approved of this ending to his opera.
Buy the DVD and enjoy the music and you will come to like the production as well.
John Cahill, music teacher
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