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Australia
/ ABC / 1x115 minute episode / Broadcast Sunday 28 November 1971 @ 8.00pm
Opera. This is a production of Puccini’s lyric comedy, La Rondine (The Swallow), with stars of Australian and overseas opera, operetta and musical comedy. The setting is Paris 1913. Magda, mistress of a rich banker, alls in love with Ruggero and goes with him to the south of France. However, like the swallow, she must return to her old haunts.
cast
Mary O’Brien as Magda / David Parker as Ruggero / Roslyn Dunbar as Lisette / David Gray as Prunier / Ronal Jackson as Rambaldo also with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, conducted by John
Hopkins
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