La Rondine (Complete opera recorded in 1996) [with Le Villi - Highlights]

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PUCCINI
La Rondine (Complete opera recorded in 1996) [with Le Villi - Highlights]
Roberto Alagna / Angela Gheorghiu / London Symphony Orchestra / Pappano

[ Warner Classics The Opera Series / 2 CD ]

Release Date: Friday 1 April 2011

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"An almost ideal account of Puccini's least-performed mature work, with both Alagna and Gheorghiu at their peak. Valuable extras from Alagna in Le Villi, too."
(BBC Music)

"Pappano on this EMI issue transforms the work, revealing it to be another masterpiece. He is added by the partnership of Angela Gheorghiu and of Alagna."
*** Three Stars. Penguin Stereo Guide.

"From first to last, tenderly, often with a throb in the voice, Gheorghiu's vocal acting convinces you that Magda's are genuine, deep emotions, painful at the end, intensified by the ravishing beauty of her voice"
(Gramophone)

"[Pappano is] so attentive to detail, and Puccini's gorgeous orchestral writing in this opera has never sounded so well as it does here...I've certainly heard no other recording that makes such an overwhelmingly persuasive case for this lovely opera...it's conducted with an ideal mixture of sensuousness and theatrical sweep, and the singing is generally marvellous."
(International Record Review)

"An almost ideal account of Puccini's least-performed mature work, with both Alagna and Gheorghiu at their peak. Valuable extras from Alagna in Le Villi, too."
(BBC Music)