Mascagni conducted this studio recording of the opera from 1940, and the world always has assumed that recording was definitive. When Bernstein conducted the opera, he copied its tempos and rubatos. But in this littleknown version from 1938, also conducted by Mascagni, the tempos and rubatos are different. Lina Bruna Rasa stars in both versions, but is more impassioned in this one.