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A concert performance of Puccini's take on operetta sees a superlative reading of the score from Sir Antonio Pappano, and a sensational Magda from Carolina López Moreno.

Angel Blue and Jonathan Tetelman star in a revival of Nicolas Joël’s 2008 production of the Italian master’s sole attempt at crossover. 

James Hurley directs a new production of Puccini's neglected opera to close Opera North's Green Season. 

One of Puccini's less renowned works returns to the Teatro San Carlo after over thirty years away.

Commissioned as an operetta, La rondine became a true opera instead, and was presented in 1917 in Montecarlo at the high point of WW1.

A tight production from Martin Lloyd-Evans together with a strong cast and loving treatment from conductor Matthew Kofi Waldren made a strong case for more regular performances of this neglected gem.

Rolando Villazon's new production of Puccini's La rondine for the Deutsche Oper Berlin charms with 1920s glamour.

Rapturously romantic, intimate, moving, unforgettable: more English summer opera should be like Iford. And the garden is like Narnia in the spring. 

Is it opera, or operetta? Actually, Pucciniʼs La rondine looked more like 1930s Hollywood - men in tuxes, women in glamorous gowns, socialites with endless leisure time, people who barely know each other falling passionately in love – the only thing missing was Greta Garbo.

Puccini's La rondine at The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland is a two hour whirlwind of Parisian love, given a very stylish treatment.

In La rondine’s climactic scene, when Magda explains to her young lover Ruggero why she believes she must leave him, Puccini sets their exchange to one of the most hackneyed of all musical formulas: the cycle of fifths.

From Studio to Stage was the name of this year’s summer performance by young artists on the Jette Parker programme at the Royal Opera House. The programme includes not only singers but also conductors/répétiteurs, a pianist, a lighting designer and stage director Pedro Ribeiro, who surely wins the prize for best headshot.

In his wonderful BBC series on Italian opera, Antonio Pappano declared that "Puccini does love like no other composer," a phrase I've also heard from others.

Read our review of Nicolas Joël's production of Puccini­'s La Rondine in its 2009 broadcast from the Met Opera in New York.

Lotte de Beer gibt Puccinis Oper einen neuen – feministischen – Anstrich.

Trente ans après son dernier passage sur les planches milanaises et cent ans après la disparition de son auteur, l'opéra méconnu de Puccini bénéficie d'une mise en scène efficace et d'une belle distribution.

Puccinis Commedia lirica erscheint in Zürich als Schweizerische Erstaufführung. Ermonela Jaho ist eine fabelhafte Hauptdarstellerin, Christof Loy bietet eine schlüssige Inszenierung und Marco Armiliato lässt Italianità vom Feinsten erklingen. 

La mise en scène de Nicolas Joël de La Rondine est de retour au Capitole avec un nouveau plateau d'artistes.

Mondän inszeniert wollte der Abend zwar nicht immer ganz abheben, besonders das Orchester begeisterte aber mit viel Italianità.