CAST:
Fernando Portari
(Ruggero)
Fiorenza Cedolins (Magda)
Sandra Pastrana (Lisette)
Emanuele Giannino (Prunier)
Stefano Antonucci (Rambaldo)
George Mosley (Pericaud)
Iorio Zennaro (Gobin)
Giuseppe Nicodemo (Crebillon)
PRODUCTION
TEAM:
Conductor: Carlo Rizzi
Design: Peter J. Davison
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Performed at
Teatro La Fenice,
Venice
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.
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