La Fanciulla Del West

Show Info Cast & Creative Age & Content Guide

Genre Opera/Dance

Venue

First Performance 16/09/2008

Closing 30/09/2008

Running Time 3h30

The California Gold Rush provides the setting for the tense story, sweeping music and lavish Royal Opera staging of Puccini’s ‘Wild West’ opera – with whisky and bar-room brawling, a suspicious sheriff and even the fateful turn of a hand of poker.

At the centre is the romance between an outlaw in hiding, Dick Johnson, and the tough woman who saves his life, Minnie – presented with Puccini’s much-loved lyricism by star tenor José Cura as Dick Johnson opposite Eva-Maria Westbroek as his feisty, gun-toting heroine Minnie.

The detailed stage picture in Pierro Faggioni’s realistic production has been created by Kenneth Adam, known for his work on James Bond films, to draw audiences right into that Gold Rush world. Antonio Pappano again conducts in the Italian repertory for which he is so acclaimed.

Sung in Italian with English surtitles.

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Cast

Eva-Maria-Westbroek, Jose Cura, Silvano Carroli/Claudio Sgura, Bonaventura Bottone, Eric Halfvarson, Gwynne Howell, Daniel Sutin, Hubert Francis, Kostas Smoriginas, Quentin Hayes, Harry Nicol, Andrew Foster-Williams, Robert Murray, Adrian Clarke, Graeme Danby, Clare Shearer, Jeremy White, Lee Hickinbottom

Creative

Director - Piero Faggioni

Producer - Royal Opera

Conductor - Antonio Pappano

Lighting Designer - Piero Faggioni

Set Designer - Kenneth Adam

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