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Puccini's 'La rondine'

BBC Symphony Orchestra / Carlo Rizzi

,Barbican Hall
An image of Ermonela Jaho posing surrounded by a blue circle against a blue background

Ermonela Jaho stars in Puccini’s bittersweet romance, his opera La rondine, incorporating music that has not been heard this century. 

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 BBCSO 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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Sung in Italian with English surtitles
Co-produced by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Opera Rara

Programme

  • Giacomo Puccini   La rondine

Performers

  • BBC Symphony Orchestra  
  • Carlo Rizzi   conductor
  • Ermonela Jaho   Magda de Civry
  • Iván Ayón-Rivas   Ruggero Lastouc
  • Nicola Alaimo   Rambaldo Fernandez
  • Ellie Neate   Lisette
  • Juan Franciso Gatell   Prunier
  • Jessica Robinson   Yvette/ Georgette / Fleury
  • Julieth Lozano Rolong   Bianca / Gabriella / Mariette
  • Joanna Harries   Suzy/ Lolette / Rorò
  • Robert Lewis   Gobin
  • David Shipley   Périchaud
  • William Thomas   Crébillon / Il maggiordomo
  • BBC Singers  

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