La rondine
Music by Giacomo Puccini · libretto by Giuseppe Adami · premiered 1917 · at Opéra de Monte-Carlo
La rondine (The Swallow) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Adami, based on a libretto by Alfred Maria Willner and Heinz Reichert. It was first performed at the Grand Théâtre de Monte Carlo (or the Théâtre du Casino) in Monte Carlo on 27 March 1917.
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About the Composer
Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (22 December 1858 – 29 November 1924) was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas. Regarded as the greatest and most successful proponent of Italian opera after Verdi, he was descended from a long line of composers, stemming from the late Baroque era. Though his early work was firmly rooted in traditional late-nineteenth-century Romantic Italian opera, it later developed in the realistic verismo style, of which he became one of the leading exponents. His most renowned works are La bohème (1896), Tosca (1900), Madama Butterfly (1904), and the unfinished Turandot (1926, posthumously completed by Franco Alfano), all of which are…
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Other Operas by Giacomo Puccini
- Le Villi (1884)
- Edgar (1889)
- La bohème (1893)
- La fanciulla del West (1905)
- Gianni Schicchi (1917)
- Il tabarro (1918)
- Il trittico (1918)