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The Girl of the Golden West (2013)
Directed by Felis Breisac, Marco Arturo Marelli, Katherina Strommer
Music · 2h 18m
A celebrated new production of Puccini’s La fanciulla del West from the Vienna State opera featuring Jonas Kaufmann and Nina Stemme. Staged by Marco Arturo Marelli, who sets it in a modern-day mining village, with the feel of a gritty modern drama, during the American gold rush of 1849. An unlikely setting for an Italian opera, but one that has a happy ending. It tells the tale of Minnie, the bartender in the saloon whom all the local men adore, and Dick Johnson alias Ramerrez, a notorious bandit. Dick and Minnie fall in love on first meeting, so much so that he vows to change his life as a bandit, sung by two contemporary great singers: Nina Stemme and Jonas Kaufmann. A new production from Marco Arturo Marelli brought one of Puccini’s rarely performed works to the Vienna State Opera stage in September 2013. Jonas Kaufmann in his role debut as the wanted and notorious bandit Ramerrez proves ideally cast, full of power, with his breathtakingly beautiful baritone timbre.
Cast
Franz Welser-Möst
Nina Maria Stemme
Tomasz Konieczny
Crew
- Director
- Felis Breisac, Marco Arturo Marelli, Katherina Strommer
- Writer
- Giacomo Puccini
Details
- Original title
- La Fanciulla del West
- Release date
- 2013-09-30
- Runtime
- 2h 18m
- Genres
- Music
- Original language
- IT
- Spoken languages
- Italian
- Production
- Unitel Classics, Sony Music Entertainment