Opera

La rondine

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• 04 April 2025
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A very favourite Puccini opera, first performed in 1917.It was obscured by the First World War, and not immediately taken to because no one dies and no devastation occurs. Gaining popularity now, the libretto having come into the public domain, making it more accessible to more people. In the current day, it may well appeal particularly to the transgender community, particularly the production with Bakanova.

Magda, a courtesan, is having a get-together, a soirée, with some friends in the house of her keeper, Rambaldo. Ruggero, someone Ranbaldo knows, arrives on a visit to Paris. In order to show him the town, they decide to go to the night venue, Bullier's. The maid, Lisette, who's attached to the poet, Prunier, dresses herself up in her mistresses clothes to go with the party to Bullier's, while Magda decides to go disguised as a maid or grisette. At Bullier's, Magda falls in love with Ruggerro, and they go off for a romantic life in the south of France. However, Magda, a courtesan, cannot "hope to enter the family home" of Ruggero, they cannot marry, and she must go back to her past life.

Puccini revised the ending of the opera at least twice.

Magda: Sicilia



Magda: Bakanona



Magda: Gheorghiu



Magda: Arteta