6th Nov 2026by Katherine Cooper
Ermonela Jaho is on tear-jerking form as the complex heroine Magda in this darker, 1921 iteration of Puccini's rom-com turned sour, outstandingly conducted by Carlo Rizzi and idiomatically reconstructed from archive materials by the Opera Rara team.
Ermonela Jaho (Magda de Civry), Iván Ayón-Rivas (Ruggero Lastouc), Juan Francisco Gatell (Prunier), Ellie Neate (Lisette), Nicola Alaimo (Rambaldo Fernandez), BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers, Carlo Rizzi