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.

Editor's note: This story has been updated to include Berkshire Opera Festival Co-Founder Jonathon Loy among Berkshire connections to "La Rondine." Tenor Jonathan Tetelman would love to come back to ...

Go inside rehearsals for The Met's return of Puccini’s passionate love story, which features soprano Angel Blue as Magda and tenor Jonathan Tetelman as Ruggero. Puccini’s bittersweet love story makes ...

In some ways, it is not hard to see why La rondine is not more frequently staged. The Brief Encounter-esque plot, in which Magda, the mistress of the banker Rambaldo, momentarily surrenders to ...

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 ...

When the star soprano stepped onto the Royal Opera House stage at the opening of Puccini’s La rondine (‘The swallow’), the tension was palpable. Whatever the rights and wrongs of her tricky week in ...