La rondine - Schedule, Program & Tickets

Opera by Giacomo Puccini

In Italian with German surtitles

In Magda's salon, the poet Prunier provokes those present with his ideas about love. Financially dependent on her rich lover Rambaldo, Magda believes in romantic love. She visits a dance hall incognito, where she falls in love with the young student Ruggero. They spend a carefree time on the Côte d'Azur until Ruggero wants to marry her. Under pressure from the poet Prunier, Magda has no choice but to confess her "immoral" past to Ruggero and leave him.

The Carltheater in Vienna commissioned Puccini to compose a Viennese operetta to the libretto by Alfred M. Willner and Heinz Reichert. Puccini did not want to write a number operetta with spoken texts, but a through-composed piece. In form it has become an opera, but the piece is imbued with the flavor of Viennese operetta.



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