Event listing: La Rondine | Royal Opera House, Covent Garden | Event is in the past

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Royal Opera House, Covent GardenBow Street, Covent Garden, London, Greater London, WC2E 9DD, United Kingdom

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Programme

Puccini, Giacomo (1858-1924)

Libretto by Giuseppe Adami

Performers

The Royal Opera
Marco Armiliato	Conductor
Nicolas Joël	Director
Angela Gheorghiu	Soprano	Magda	2013 Jul 05, 08, 11, 14, 17
Charles Castronovo	Tenor	Ruggero	2013 Jul 05, 08, 11, 14, 17
Sabina Puértolas	Soprano	Lisette
Edgaras Montvidas	Tenor	Prunier
Pietro Spagnoli	Bass	Rambaldo
Ermonela Jaho	Soprano	Magda	2013 Jul 20, 21 mat
Atalla Ayan	Tenor	Ruggero	2013 Jul 20, 21 mat

Reviews of La rondine directed by Nicolas Joël

***11

Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, March 2024

Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, October 2009

****1

Théâtre du Capitole, Toulouse, November 2017 (Français)

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Breezy virtuosity from the Royal Opera with Angela Gheorghiu in La Rondine

Paul Kilbey, 6th July

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.

***11

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