Puccini: La Rondine

Puccini: La Rondine

 I’d have expected something more stylish from the Puccini Festival. This is tawdrily staged, and Ruggero, the hero, is sung by a vast charmless tenor. Elegance is lacking throughout. Michael Tanner

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2

Michael Tanner

Published: January 20, 2012 at 4:25 pm

COMPOSERS: Puccini
LABELS: Naxos
WORKS: La Rondine
PERFORMER: Vassileva, Dashuk, Sartori, Giannino; Puccini Festival Ch & O/Veronesi; dir. Lorenzo Amato (Torre del Lago, 2007)
CATALOGUE NO: 2.110266

I’d have expected something more stylish from the Puccini Festival. This is tawdrily staged, and Ruggero, the hero, is sung by a vast charmless tenor. Elegance is lacking throughout. Michael Tanner

Michael Tanner

Journalist and Critic, BBC Music Magazine

Michael Tanner is a critic for BBC Music Magazine and the opera critic of The Spectator. He is now a fellow of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, having lectured in the Philosophy faculty at the University of Cambridge for 36 years. In 2010, he released The Faber Pocket Guide to Wagner.
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