Carlo Rizzi

So we have the vocal score, we have these sketches, these extra little instrumental cues, and of course what we also have then is the full score of the first version, which tells us the sound world Puccini was imagining for this opera.

So when it comes to reorchestrating these entirely new sections, what we did was that- Um, Martin was really responsible for this, and Carlo Rizzi and I both had a chance to engage with him and to look at drafts of this to make sure it was really as integrated as possible into what we had.

It's crucial, I think, that quite a lot of what you hear has reminiscences of music you've heard earlier in the opera.

So one of the key tasks, actually, was to make sure that it really fitted into the sound world of what's already happened.

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[laughs]Part of the Chorus Waltz from Act Two of La rondine in its final 1921 version.

We were listening to the BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Carlo Rizzi, and that's from the complete recording coming soon on the Opera Rara label.

Dylan, it's so gloriously-