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La Rondine

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20.02.2019 , Wednesday

19:30 

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Deutsche Oper, Bismarckstraße 35, 10627 Berlin, Germany

Lyric comedy in three acts Libretto by Giuseppe Adami based on the German original "Die Schwalbe" by Alfred Maria Willner and Heinz Reichert World premiere on March 27, 1917 at the Opera House of Monte Carlo Premiere at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on March 8, 2015 In Italian with German and English surtitles 2 hours 15 minutes / A break ...

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Lyric comedy in three acts
Libretto by Giuseppe Adami based on the German original "Die Schwalbe" by Alfred Maria Willner and Heinz Reichert
World premiere on March 27, 1917 at the Opera House of Monte Carlo
Premiere at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on March 8, 2015
In Italian with German and English surtitles

2 hours 15 minutes / A break

Alfred Maria Willner, the successful author of the Viennese Carltheater (DIE DOLLARPRINZESSIN, THE COUNT OF LUXEMBOURG) had written a libretto with Heinz Reichert entitled DIE SCHWALBE, which they made available to Puccini. Puccini made it clear from the beginning that he would not write a conventional operetta, he excluded spoken dialogues, but a "lyrical comedy" in the sense of ROSENKAVALIER he would like to make. The basic structure of an operetta can still be seen in the libretto edited by Giuseppe Adami and translated into Italian: three acts with a great confusion in the finale of the second act; two soprano-tenor pairs that socially reflect a "top" and "bottom". The use of dances, especially of the waltz, is new to Puccini. The conclusion is quite different, however, which can not be classified in any opera or operetta scheme.

The main character Magda lives in the house of the banker Rambaldo, from which she can endure. The poet Prunier, regular guest at Rambaldo's house and close friend of Magda's chambermaid Lisette, designs the image of a swallow (La Rondine = The Swallow). He prophesies to Magda that she will fly like a swallow towards the sun and love. Ruggero, the son of a friend of Rambaldo, who visits Paris for the first time, is led by Magda's friends to the dance hall at Bullier. Magda appears incognito there and falls in love with Ruggero. Rambaldo surprises the two just as they confess their love. Magda officially separates from him and his money. She moves with Ruggero to the Riviera and lives there in modesty and with remorse, because she has told her new nothing of her past life as a mistress Rambaldos. He would be willing to forgive when she returned to him, but she does not want to stay with Ruggero any more than she has confessed everything to her, but has nothing to offer her but a boring marriage in the country. This Magda self-determined conclusion derives from Puccini, who rejected more conventional solutions proposed by the librettists.

Star tenor Rolando Villazón, who has also made a name for himself as a novelist ("Feats") and director, took on the seldom-performed opera in 2015 and emphasized the plurality of the "Roaring Twenties" that is already foretelling in the entanglement of opera and entertainment theater. From the exaggerations in the text and in the music, from which the comedy grows, he draws traces to symbolistic and expressionistic signs of dreaming and longing.

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