Winter Opera has presented a truly gorgeous production of Puccini's La Rondine (The Swallow). Puccini is the supreme master of romantic melody, and in Rondine he outdoes himself. I love this opera, my ...

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Ask an opera fan to name a work by Puccini where the heroine is undone by love, and chances are good the response will be “Madama Butterfly” or “La Boheme.” But with its next production, Opera San ...

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Or throw out the whole setup and start afresh? It's the latter that we’re currently seeing in action at If Opera, whose first real season (there was a taster last year with a scaled-back Cav/Pag) ...

For the finale of what has been a glorious season, Opera Santa Barbara offers one of Giacomo Puccini’s less often performed works, the late operetta La rondine. Written to order for a Viennese ...

Opera San Jose’s luscious new production of Puccini’s “La Rondine” left its opening-night audience cheering — and emotionally spent, wrung out like a dishrag. Anyone who isn’t deeply moved by this ...

The tale is that old opera favourite of doomed love: Magda falls for Ruggero, a young innocent visiting Paris for the first time, and ditches the wealthy banker whose mistress she had been. After a ...

La rondine (The Swallow) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Adami, based on a libretto by Alfred Maria Willner and Heinz Reichert. It was first performed ...

It is La traviata meets Die Fledermaus. Traviata without the fatality; Fledermaus without the frivolity. Puccini's La rondine (The Swallow) can never quite bring itself to be operetta (despite the ...