GENRE Commedia lirica in tre atti
LIBRETTO Giuseppe Adami, after the libretto by A. M. Willner and Heinz Reichert
FIRST PERFORMED Théâtre de Monte-Carlo, 27 March 1917
NOTES

                                                

 Although Puccini substantially revised La rondine in a second and third version, he seemed to lose interest in the opera and instead became absorbed with the completion of the Trittico. La rondine, beset by problems of war-time collaborations and political misunderstandings, has never enjoyed the success of Puccini's other later operas. La rondine began as a commission for a Viennese operetta in German. Following a quarrel with Tito Ricordi, Giulio's son and successor, Puccini engaged Adami to recast the German text into an Italian libretto, and he decided to offer his first comic opera to Ricordi's Milanese rivals, Casa Sonzogno.


PUBLICATION TITLE

VERSION

TYPE

NOTES

 La rondine

Undated manuscript

Italian piano and vocal score

This is a manuscript copy that probably originated from the Casa Sonzogno. The manuscript is probably in the hand of Carlo Carignani, who prepared the vocal scores of most of Puccini’s operas, and the emendations in blue pencil— incorporated into the published vocal score—are almost certainly Puccini’s.

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PUBLICATION TITLE La rondine La Rondine Title Page 154 kB
VERSION First version
TYPE Italian piano and vocal score
EDITION Riduzione di Carlo Carignani
PUBLISHER Casa Musicale Sonzogno, Milano
DATE 1917
PLATE NUMBER M 2022 S
VOLUME 285 pp.
HOPKINSON NUMBER 8A (a)

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