La Rondine review – new version of Puccini’s opera makes aftertaste bitter rather than sweet

Barbican Hall, London Carlo Rizzi and the BBC Symphony Orchestra sparkled as Ermonela Jaho as Magda and Iván Ayón-Rivas as Ruggero delivered the composer’s long-lost preferred version Operas often don’t end up being performed in quite the way their composers intended – and that’s been especially (…)