Word: rambaldo
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Catherine E. DeLima is a sweet-voiced anddemure Magda, gradually giving herself over firstto nostalgia, then longing and finally abandon.Her young lover Ruggero (Joel L. Derfner) iswinningly earnest in both voice and appearance.Saccente puts in another solid performance asMagda's "gentleman friend" Rambaldo. Themephistophelian poet Prunier (Michael J. Olbash)is affably effete, but perhaps a bit stiff as theadvocate of love's "dread disease...
...story has not grown in stature since Adami transcribed it, nor has the music. It remains a rather unhappy medium between Camille and Sappho-with the fancy lady in this particular case called Magda, her paunchy patron-Rambaldo, the innocent youth for whom she flies her love-nest-Ruggiero, and for comic relief-a maid, a poet. Unlike Camille & Sappho the comic relief wins out, Ruggiero's intentions prove a little too honorable-and the swallow flies back home. Unlike the earlier Puccini scores, the element of tragedy is missing from the soft, curving arias and duets. Unlike Monte...
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