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Soprano

Elizabeth Llewellyn

Magda

Tenor

Matteo Lippi

Ruggero

Tereza Gevorgyan

Lisette

Stephen Aviss

Prunier

Baritone

David Stephenson

Rambaldo

Bass-baritone

Henry Grant Kerswell

Perichaud

Timothy Langston

Gobin

Alistair Sutherland

Crébillon

Pia Harris

Yvette

A singer

Alice Privett

Bianca

Mezzo-soprano

Sophie Dicks

Suzy

Alys Meredid Roberts

Bass

Jon Shaw

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Conductor

Matthew Kofi Waldren

Stage director

Martin Lloyd-Evans

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takis

Lighting designer

Mark Howland

Opera Holland Park

Italian

La rondine -  (The Swallow)

London

United Kingdom

Holland Park Theatre

La rondine Puccini

The Swallow

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La rondine - Audience Reactions

Puccini’s heart-breaking story of love and loss has become enormously popular in recent years and the opera has been re-evaluated as one of the composer’s most exquisitely crafted works.
Astonishingly, it is sometimes listed as a ‘comedy’, presumably because nobody dies, but it is, in fact, a story that describes the process of love and separation in a way that most of us can relate to. Dripping with emotion, the final scene is among Puccini’s most unbearably painful inventions.

Magda is the ‘Swallow’ of the title, a society girl, flighty and free, who meets and falls in love with Ruggero, but ultimately, his good family name, and her desire not to sully it, will drive them apart.

The score is warm and delicious, the choruses breathtakingly shaped and the evocation of Parisian life is beguiling – but there is no escaping the tears of the finale.

The Swallow by Puccini, From (2017/2017), Directed by Martin Lloyd-Evans,, Conductor Matthew Kofi Waldren, Holland Park Theatre, London, United Kingdom

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