Roberto Alagna | "MORIRE?" & "PARIGI! è la città dei desideri", Puccini, LYRIC VIDEO

In this lyric video, you can listen to Roberto Alagna successively performing the two versions of a same composition by Giacomo Puccini. Both texts are by Giuseppe Adami. In 1917, Puccini first wrote a piano and voice song: "Morire?". In the first version of La Rondine, premiered in Monte Carlo the same year in 1917, "Parigi è la città dei desideri" wasn't included yet. The unenthusiastic reaction from the public lead Puccini to revise the opera as he often used to do. In the first revision, the Maestro adapted "Morire?" to Ruggero's aria - "Parigi è la città", in which he describes Paris as "the city of desire". The melody is almost identical except a few bars. Puccini removed the aria from the 2nd revision.

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