It’s not your fault if you think that Puccini only wrote four operas: La bohme, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and Turandot. Even folks who know better may not have experienced his endearing La rondine, ...

Puccini’s “La Rondine” often is described — or dismissed — as the poor, neglected cousin of the composer’s bigger hits. How unfair its fate. Because “La Rondine” offers nearly two hours of unbroken ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by The tenor sang the role of Ruggero in a revival of Puccini’s opera that was performed with such restraint, it verged on overly careful. By Oussama ...

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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 ...

Opera’s golden couple, Angela Gheorghiu and husband Roberto Alagna, offer viewers a rare chance to experience Giacomo Puccini’s attempt to meld Italianate opera with the bittersweet Viennese operetta ...

There's something almost magical about going to the opera, where human voices transcend reality to produce unbelievably gorgeous sounds. The Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) has already delivered such quality ...

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 ...

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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 ...