Winter Opera has presented a truly gorgeous production of Puccini's La Rondine (The Swallow). Puccini is the supreme master of romantic melody, and in Rondine he outdoes himself. I love this opera, my ...

2 OH, MARY! Reveals Tour Dates and Cities For 2026-27 3 OPERATION MINCEMEAT Reveals 2026-27 Tour Dates and Cities The Opera Company of Middlebury presents Puccini's luscious and rarely-seen love story ...

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 ...

Opera Santa Barbara will conclude its 23rd season with the company’s premiere production of Giacomo Puccini’s poignant operetta La Rondine. Performances are 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 28, and 2:30 p.m.

For the finale of what has been a glorious season, Opera Santa Barbara offers one of Giacomo Puccini’s less often performed works, the late operetta La rondine. Written to order for a Viennese ...

It's the latter that we’re currently seeing in action at If Opera, whose first real season (there was a taster last year with a scaled-back Cav/Pag) opened this week at Wiltshire’s lovely Belcombe ...

Set in the 1920s, James Hurley’s staging – the third of the company’s Green Season – is blessed with perfectly mismatched lovers. Under conductor Kerem Hasan the score sighs and swoons Puccini’s La ...

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 ...

With all the major country-house opera companies now in full swing, we can compare their strengths and weaknesses. Glyndebourne – the one they all dream of emulating – remains superbly itself, both ...

Rupert Christiansen's synical feelings about this Rolex-cushioned Royal Opera revival of Tosca were unfounded. Rating: Tosca: * * * * * / La Rondine: * * * Bitter experience suggests that star-studded ...