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Metropolitan Opera Cinema presents LA RONDINE
Saturday 20 April 5:55PM
- By: Giacomo Puccini
- Conductor: Speranza Scappucci
- Producer: Nicolas Joël
- Runtime: 2hrs 47mins (TBC)
- Screening: A Live broadcast from New York
- Tickets: £18, £16.50, £13 (incl. £1.30 comsn.)
- Venue: Studio
- With: Angel Blue, Jonathan Tetelman, Emily Pogorelc, Bekhzod Davronov
The score of La Rondine is sophisticated and entirely engrossing.
Initially conceived as an operetta before receiving the full operatic treatment, this bittersweet love story is the least-known work of the mature Giacomo Puccini, having never premiered in Vienna due to WW1, and never finding a permanent place in the repertoire. That loss is scandalous, since La Rondine, judged on its own merits rather than compared to other operas with similar themes, is a fascinating work -featuring an abundance of exuberant waltzes, a lightness of tone (particularly in the intoxicating first two acts), and a romantic vision of Paris and the south of France.
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Initially conceived as an operetta before receiving the full operatic treatment, this bittersweet love story is the least-known work of the mature Giacomo Puccini, having never premiered in Vienna due to WW1, and never finding a permanent place in the repertoire. That loss is scandalous, since La Rondine, judged on its own merits rather than compared to other operas with similar themes, is a fascinating work -featuring an abundance of exuberant waltzes, a lightness of tone (particularly in the intoxicating first two acts), and a romantic vision of Paris and the south of France.
