RONDINE, LA

Jonathan Tetelman makes his highly anticipated Met debut in Puccini’s passionate love story LA RONDINE

In recent Met seasons, soprano Angel Blue has given heartbreaking performances as Mimì in Puccini’s La Bohème and Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata, so it’s fitting that she headlined the company’s 2024 revival of Puccini's bittersweet lovestory LA RONDINE, whose heroine, Magda, dreams of happiness only for her hopes to be dashed when her past as a kept woman catches up to her. In this production, Blue stars alongside tenor Jonathan Tetelman, in his Met debut as Magda’s idealistic young lover, Ruggero. Speranza Scappucci takes the podium to conduct a bejeweled staging by Nicolas Joël, who whisks the audience away to Paris and the French Riviera during the Roaring Twenties. Also in their Met debuts, soprano Emily Pogorelc and tenor Bekhzod Davronov are the comic couple Lisette and Prunier, with bass-baritone Alfred Walker completing the principal cast as Rambaldo.

"Angel Blue’s luscious soprano is remarkable for its sheer beauty of tone, even from top to bottom… the full-throated passion she brings to the final scene as she abandons her lover is thrilling to hear.” - Financial Times

“As Ruggero, [Tetelman] was both dashing and gentle, perfectly bashful and pitiably heartbroken. His voice is consequential but still limber, with a forward-facing buzz that carries his sound far into the house… his presence is so inviting that I missed him whenever he went offstage.” - Observer