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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Not seen at the Met since 1936, Puccini's "La Rondine" makes a welcome return bolstered by the star power of its real-life husband-and-wife leads Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna. Not seen at the ...

Giacomo Puccini's relatively obscure and uncharacteristically frothy "La Rondine" ("The Swallow") seems tailor-made for annual spring production. Originally intended as an operetta, it's light both in ...

Puccini’s passionate love story La Rondine will make a rare appearance in the Metropolitan Opera’s 2023–24 Live in HD season, transmitted live on Saturday, April 20, at 12:55PM ET. American soprano ...

Puccini’s “La Rondine,” which Los Angeles Opera revived Saturday at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, is a problem. Even the composer had second and third thoughts about it. He wrote one ending for the ...

When the star soprano stepped onto the Royal Opera House stage at the opening of Puccini’s La rondine (‘The swallow’), the tension was palpable. Whatever the rights and wrongs of her tricky week in ...

Musically, “La Rondine” is “La Traviata” without the inspiration. Plotwise, it is “La Traviata” without the disease. Even though this story of a woman who is financially supported by one man and in ...

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