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Puccini's 'La rondine'Concert performance

Barbican HallSilk Street, London, Greater London, EC2Y 8DS, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
Friday 05 December 202519:30
Programme
Puccini, Giacomo (1858-1924)La rondineLibretto by Giuseppe Adami
Performers
Opera Rara
Carlo RizziConductor
BBC Symphony Orchestra
BBC Singers
Ermonela JahoSopranoMagda
Ellie NeateSopranoLisette
Iván Ayón-RivasTenorRuggero
Juan Francisco GatellTenorPrunier
Julieth LozanoSopranoBianca
Joanna HarriesMezzo-sopranoSuzy
Jessica RobinsonSopranoYvette
Nicola AlaimoBaritoneRambaldo
David ShipleyBassPérichaud
Robert LewisTenorGobin
William ThomasBassCrébillon

Ruggero is young and wealthy, with his whole life before him. Magda is beautiful, worldly and wise – surely too wise to fall in love all over again? But amid the delights of belle-époque Paris, romance can be as intoxicating as champagne – and the heart, as they say, has its own reasons. In Puccini’s opera La rondine, they’ve never sounded sweeter.

Inspired by Viennese operetta, La rondine is a bittersweet love story, set to some of the most romantic melodies that even Puccini ever wrote. But it’s also portrait of a world waltzing on the edge; a deeply moving study of innocence and (tender) experience. This one-off concert performance from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Opera Rara stars Ermonela Jaho as Magda, and uses the newly restored final 1921 version of the score, incorporating music which is completely unknown today. Prepare to be seduced.

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