When you're feeling sentimental there's nothing like Puccini. The design elements of this production embrace the tone of Puccini's opera more perfectly than one could ever imagine. It's a tone of ...
The only thing wrong with Washington Concert Opera’s energizing performance of Giacomo Puccini’s “La Rondine” on Sunday at the Lisner Auditorium was that I could hear it just once. Oh, and also the ...
Opera Santa Barbara will conclude its 23rd season with the company’s premiere production of Giacomo Puccini’s poignant operetta La Rondine. Performances are 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 28, and 2:30 p.m.
Editor's note: This story has been updated to include Berkshire Opera Festival Co-Founder Jonathon Loy among Berkshire connections to "La Rondine." Tenor Jonathan Tetelman would love to come back to ...
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) opened this week at Wiltshire’s lovely Belcombe ...
Go inside rehearsals for The Met's return of Puccini’s passionate love story, which features soprano Angel Blue as Magda and tenor Jonathan Tetelman as Ruggero. Puccini’s bittersweet love story makes ...
This revival is notable for several debut performances from Jonathan Tetelmen as Ruggero, Emily Pogorelc as Lisette and Bekhzod Davronov as Prunier. Angel Blue as Magda in Puccini’s “La Rondine.” ...
On Saturday, the high-definition broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera will be Giacomo Puccini's "La Rondine." The performance, which will take place at the Town Plaza Cinema, begins at noon ...
In some respects, La rondine is Puccini’s most-heartbreaking opera. Although all the characters escape alive at the end, the farewell between the central lovers, Magda and Ruggero, is a far more ...
Puccini’s La rondine is rather more emotion than action driven. The Brief Encounter-esque plot, in which Magda, the mistress of the banker Rambaldo Fernandez, momentarily surrenders to insouciant ...
If you were seized unawares by the opening orchestral flourish of La rondine, operetta might be among the politer designations to come to hand. For the first 20 or so bars the score resembles nothing ...