Puccini’s La rondine | Final 1921 Version

Name: Puccini’s La rondine | Final 1921 Version
Start: 2025-12-05T19:30:00+00:00
Location: Barbican Centre,London

Schedule

Fri, 05 Dec, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Barbican Centre,London | London, EN

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 BBC Symphony Orchestra 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.
Sung in Italian with English surtitles
Co-produced by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Opera Rara
Performers
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, Bianca / Gabriella / Mariette
Joanna Harries, Suzy/ Lolette / Rorò
Robert Lewis, Gobin
David Shipley, Perichaud
William Thomas, Crébillon / Il maggiordomo
BBC Singers
BBC Symphony Orchestra