Magda's guests are charmed by her performance and her long-term protector Rambaldo gives her a pearl necklace. He does not know how to finish the song, so Magda takes over and provides the second verse: she recounts how Doretta falls in love with a student (Aria: Chi il bel sogno di Doretta).
Prunier maintains that no one is immune to romantic love and sings the first verse of his latest song about Doretta, who rejected a king as her suitor because of the value she placed on true love. Prunier takes offence and Magda orders Lisette to leave. Magda's friends Yvette, Bianca and Suzy playfully mock him, while Lisette, Magda's maid, tells him he does not know what he is talking about. Act 1 Īt a cocktail party hosted by the courtesan Magda, the poet Prunier expounds his theories on love. Synopsis Place: Paris and the French Riviera. Grisettes, flower girls and dancing girls, waiters. Members of the bourgeoisie, students, painters, elegantly dressed ladies and gentlemen,
However, despite the artistic value of the score, La rondine has been one of Puccini's less successful works "In box office terms, was the poor cousin to the other great hits." There is no established final version of it, Puccini being dissatisfied, as often, with the result of his work he revised it many times to the point of making three versions (1917, 1920, 1921), with two completely different endings, but died before clearly deciding on a final version. At the premiere in Monte Carlo in 1917 the initial reception by the public and press was warm. In Italy, Puccini offered the work to his editor Tito Ricordi, who declined to buy it, dismissing it as "Bad Lehár" thus Ricordi's rival, Lorenzo Sonzogno, obtained the right to give the first performance outside Austria-Hungary and moved the premiere to Monégasque neutral territory.
A feature of the music is Puccini's use of modern dance rhythms, such as the tango, to denote the various characters. The originally intended Viennese première was impeded by the outbreak of World War I and the entrance of Italy in the Alliance against Austria-Hungary, hence the Opéra de Monte-Carlo was chosen as the location to present it, with Gilda dalla Rizza and Tito Schipa in the leading roles. The work proceeded for two years, sometimes intensely, sometimes with great difficulty, and in spring 1916 the opera was finished.
After confirming that it could take the form of a comic opera with no spoken dialogue in the style of Der Rosenkavalier, "only more entertaining and more organic," he agreed. In autumn 1913, the directors of Vienna's Carltheater commissioned Puccini to compose a Viennese operetta.
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