from Act I of the Italian opera La Rondine by Giacomo Puccini

Libretto: Giuseppe Adami

Role: Magda, a demimondaine (a woman supported by a wealthy man), Rambaldo's mistress

Voice Part: soprano       Fach: lyric soprano

Setting: Magda's house in Paris

Synopsis: Magda sings the story of a woman named Doretta and what she dreamed about.

from Act II of the Italian opera La Rondine by Giacomo Puccini

Libretto: Giuseppe Adami

Role: Magda, a demimondaine (a woman supported by a wealthy man), Rambaldo's mistress

Voice Part: soprano       Fach: lyric soprano

Setting: Outside of Magda and Ruggero's small house near the ocean

Synopsis: At Ruggero's urging, Magda reads a letter from Ruggero's mother that expresses her joy at hearing that her son has chosen a beautiful pure woman to marry. She despairs inwardly, though, because she is not pure and innocent. Before she met Ruggero, she was just a step above a prostitute.

from Act I of the Italian opera La Rondine by Giacomo Puccini

Libretto: Giuseppe Adami

Role: Magda, a demimondaine (a woman supported by a wealthy man), Rambaldo's mistress

Voice Part: soprano       Fach: lyric soprano

Setting: Magda's house in Paris

Synopsis: Magda speaks to her friends about her youth and tells them how she ran off to a nightclub and met a man there. She wishes to recapture that intensity and passion that she encountered that night.

from Act I of the Italian opera La Rondine by Giacomo Puccini

Libretto: Giuseppe Adami

Role: Prunier, a poet

Voice Part: tenor       Fach: tenor leggiero

Setting: Magda's house in Paris

Synopsis: Prunier reads Magda's palm. He foretells that, like a swallow, she will fly into a bright world of love and joy, but that her future has both happiness and anguish in it.

from Act III of the Italian opera La Rondine by Giacomo Puccini

Libretto: Giuseppe Adami

Role: Ruggero, a young man in love with Magda

Voice Part: tenor       Fach: lyric tenor

Setting: Outside of Magda and Ruggero's small house close to the ocean

Synopsis: After asking her to marry him, Ruggero urges Magda to accept his offer, saying that they will have a happy life together and that one day, they may even have a child.