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.