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Opera

La fanciulla del west

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La fanciulla del west

The opera

Opera Season 2025

Libretto by
Guelfo Civinini e Carlo Zangarini
Composer
Giacomo Puccini

Conductor and director

  • Conductor Riccardo Frizza
  • Director Paul Curran

Characters and cast

  • Minnie Carmen Giannattasio
  • Dick Johnson (ramerrez) Angelo Villari
  • Jack Rance, Sceriffo Claudio Sgura
  • Nick Paolo Antognetti
  • Ashby Nicolò Donini
  • Sonora Francesco Salvadori
  • Sid Dario Giorgelè
  • Trin Cristiano Olivieri
  • Bello Paolo Ingrasciotta
  • Harry Orlando Polidoro
  • Joe Cristobal Campos Marin
  • Larkens Yuri Guerra
  • Billy Jackrabbit Zhibin Zhang
  • Wowkle Eleonora Filipponi
  • Bass Jake Wallace Francesco Leone
  • José Castro Kwangsik Park
  • Un Postiglione Enrico Picinni Leopardi
  • Un Postiglione Pasquale Conticelli

Orchestra and chorus

Creative team

Lighting
Daniele Naldi
Sets and costumes
Gary McCann

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Production
New production of Teatro Comunale di Bologna
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At the end she bursts in on horseback, saves the love of her life and together they ride away, free and happy. Not a prince charming, though: her name is Minnie, and she snatches the redeemed bandit Dick Johnson from the gallows. She lives alone, runs a bar full of rough miners, keeps their gold safe and cannot afford to be a fragile damsel in distress. To the customers of the saloon she is a friend, a confidante, a mother, a teacher, but she is also a young woman who dreams of true love. It will not be the love she expected, but a wanted man and a frequenter of disreputable women, for whom she will become a heroine — even offering herself, in exchange for his life, as the stake in a game of poker against the sheriff, whom she beats by cheating.

Minnie, not a victim but a redeemer, is one of Puccini’s most fascinating and complex women. In 1910, at the Metropolitan in New York, this no less many-sided and captivating opera had its première; its driving action gives way only to the aria the condemned man dedicates to his beloved. And she will save him.
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