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HISTORICAL FACTS: Ruggero - The Untold Story

La Rondine review – new version of Puccini’s opera makes aftertaste bitter rather than sweet

Carlo Rizzi and the BBC Symphony Orchestra sparkled as Ermonela Jaho as Magda and Iván Ayón-Rivas as Ruggero delivered the composer’s long-lost preferred version

The Guardian - UK · Dec 7, 2025

La Rondine at the Barbican review: this little-known Puccini work deserves a regular place in opera's canon

5/5 An Antonio Pappano favourite, Puccini’s eigth opera builds to the kind of heart-stopping climax familiar from the composer’s better-known works

Evening Standard · Dec 11, 2024

From Nightclub DJ To International Opera Star

Discover Jonathan Tetelman's extraordinary journey from nightclub DJ to acclaimed opera star, a story of perseverance and talent.

The week in classical: La rondine; La traviata review – rapture and raw power

Puccini’s flighty swallow soars in James Hurley’s gorgeous new production for Opera North. And Nicole Chevalier is devastating as the doomed Violetta in ENO’s impassioned revival of no-frills Verdi

The Guardian - UK · Oct 28, 2023

La Rondine review – Opera North’s stylish Puccini is opulent and tender

Set in the 1920s, James Hurley’s staging – the third of the company’s Green Season – is blessed with perfectly mismatched lovers. Under conductor Kerem Hasan the score sighs and swoons

The Guardian - UK · Oct 27, 2023

A Previous Life by Edmund White review – salacious confessions

A couple share their sexual histories in this elegantly filthy report from the frontiers of desire

The Guardian - UK · Feb 3, 2022

Review: 'A Previous Life,' by Edmund White

FICTION: A couple's twin memoirs generate more heat than light.

Tribune News Service · Jan 26, 2022

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