Giacomo Puccini LA RONDINE 150 min

LA RONDINE

Creatives

Conductor

Antonello Allemandi

Stage Director, Set Designer and Costume Designer

Hugo de Ana

Lighting Designer

Valerio Alfieri

Chorus master

Luka Vukšić

Choreographer

Michele Cosentino

Assistant Stage Director

Tim Ribič

Associate Costume Designer

Cristina Aceti

Assistant Costume Designer

Mia Rejc Prajninger

Assistant Set Designer

Nathalie Deana

Assistant Choreographer

Raffaella De Luca

Ensemble of the performance

Magda de Civry

Darija Auguštan

Lisette

Marija Kuhar Šoša

Ruggero Lastouc

Filip Filipović

Prunier

Martin Sušnik

Rambaldo Fernandez

Siniša Hapač

Périchaud

Marin Čargo

Gobin

Tvrtko Stipić

Crébillon

Damijan Karanfilov

Yvette

Nikolina Hrkać

Bianca

Mima Karaula

Suzy

Helena Lucić Šego

Georgette

Hana Ilčić

Gabriella

Petra Cik

Lolette

Nela Katalenić Klinar

Butler

Damijan Karanfilov

Voice

Petra Cik

Dancers at Bullier

Indi Cecić Turčinov, Tea Cvetan, Kristina Čebić, Roko Farkaš, Iva Katarinčić, Lucija Kukor, Mateja Miković, Lucija Nemarnik, Dora Sarikaya, Domagoj Sertić, Karlo Topolovec, Ante Vukov

Orchestra and Chorus of the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb

Stage Managers

Aleksandra Ćorluka, Zrinka Petrušanec

Prompter

Marija Dražančić

Concert Masters

Mojca Ramušćak, Vlatka Peljhan, k. g.

Artistic Leader of the Opera Studio

Darijan Ivezić

Artistic Leader of the Répétiteurs

Nina Cossetto

Répétiteurs

Helena Borović, Hui Won Lee

Premiere

21.10.2021

World opening night

17.03.1917

Libretto: Giuseppe Adami

La Rondine is a three-act opera by Giacomo Puccini after the libretto by Giuseppe Adami that had its world opening night at the Grand Théâtre in Monte Carlo in March 1917. At the time when Vienna was dominated by Franz Lehár and Johann Strauss Jr., the directors of the Viennese Carltheater commissioned from Puccini an operetta. It took him two years to compose the work and the first Viennese premiere was obstructed by WWI. Puccini then offered the work to his editor Tito Ricordi who refused it because it was a bad Lehár. Lorenzo Sonzogno bought the copyrights and premiered the work in Monte Carlo. Despite the artistic values of the music score and the successful performance, La Rondine remained one of the less performed Puccini's works. There is no final version of the work because Puccini, as he often used to do, not satisfied with the result of his work, many times revised the score, leaving three versions with two entirely different endings. The opera was staged for the first time in history on the stage of the CNT in Zagreb in January 2022 with Lorenzo Passerini as conductor and Hugo de Ana as director, set and costume designer.

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