LA RONDINESun, Mar 7 @ 10:15 am  $20/ $17 Seniors, students, Coolidge Members and BLO subscribers Co-presented by Boston Lyric Opera. Set in France during the Second Napoleonic Empire (1852-70). The courtesan Magda de Civry, provided for by the banker Rambaldo, meets the young Ruggero Lastouc who has just arrived from the province at a party at her home. She meets him in disguise in a Parisian café where she falls in love with him, in the belief that by doing so she can reawaken a magical adventure she had in the past. Just like a swallow flying away towards the sun, Magda abandons the banker and goes to live with Ruggero on the French Riviera. Since he has no money the young man writes to his parents to ask their permission to marry his beloved, and this is granted readily. However, the thought of belonging to someone completely and having to renounce her previous brilliant life makes Magda so sad that she decides to leave her beloved Ruggero although it breaks both their hearts. 1h50m with one intermission Music by: Giacomo Puccini Conductor: Carlo Rizzi 
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