True to its advertising, the company Opera Rara specializes in rare operas. That category might not seem to apply to Puccini, but Le Willis, the original 1883 version of what became his first full-length opera, Le Villi (1889), has apparently never been recorded and perhaps has never even been performed since its original reading. That was for a contest for one-act operas that Puccini entered while still a student. He didn't win, but the music attracted the attention of Arrigo Boito, among others, and was eventually ...
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True to its advertising, the company Opera Rara specializes in rare operas. That category might not seem to apply to Puccini, but Le Willis, the original 1883 version of what became his first full-length opera, Le Villi (1889), has apparently never been recorded and perhaps has never even been performed since its original reading. That was for a contest for one-act operas that Puccini entered while still a student. He didn't win, but the music attracted the attention of Arrigo Boito, among others, and was eventually expanded into Le Villi as it is known today (itself not often performed). You can see why: it doesn't take long before you can guess who the composer is even if you haven't looked at the graphics. The opening prelude won't quite do it (Puccini was accused, accurately enough, of aping Wagner here), but the vocal numbers that follow are pure Puccini, with many nice touches of orchestration and lush, passionate vocal lines. There aren't really arias, but there is a corker of an ensemble...
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