Puccini Flop Revived
“La Rondine,” the least successful of Puccini’s mature .operas, reached Britain this month nearly half a century after its premiere at Monte Carlo.
When first produced in 1917, the opera, written in- an act of revenge against the publisher Riccbrdi, caused an international political scandal which cast doubts on Puccini’s patriotism. The opera never caught on. “The Times” dismissed it as a strange cross-breed of serious opera and sentimental operetta.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30945, 29 December 1965, Page 8
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