NEW PRODUCTION

La fanciulla del West

Music by Giacomo Puccini
Production: Michael Capasso
Conductor: John Di Costanzo
Assistant Conductor: Samuel Bill
Set Design: John Farrell
Costume Design: Angela Huff
Lighting Design: Susan Roth

Thursday, Apr. 10, 7:30 pm
Saturday, Apr. 12, 8:00 pm
Friday, Apr. 18, 8:00 pm
Sunday, Apr. 20, 4:00 pm

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Puccini’s La fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West) with a libretto by Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini was based on the play The Girl of the Golden West by David Belasco. First performed by the Metropolitan Opera in 1910 starring Enrico Caruso as Dick Johnson, the shoot'em-up story is set against the backdrop of the California Gold Rush of 1849. Minnie the popular mistress of “Polka,” a miners’ tavern and gambling house, falls in love with bar patron Dick Johnson who is really the bandit Ramerrez. When he promises to change his ways, she saves Ramerrez from the hangman’s noose by appealing to the miners to set him free. The opera is sung in Italian with English Dicapo titles.

CAST

Minnie: Irina Rindzuner
Dick Johnson (Ramerrez): Marcos Aguiar
Jack Rance: Zeffin Quinn Hollis
Sonora: Chad Armstrong
Nick: Michael Boley
Trin: Paolo Buffagni
Sid: Vaughn Lindquist
Handsome: Andrew Cummings
Harry: Ubaldo Feliciano-Hernandez
Joe: Robert Hughes
Happy: Matthew Klauser
Larkens: Gary Ramsey
Jake Wallace: Brian Ballard
Ashby: Bryce Smith
Wowkle: Jessica Kimple
Billy Jackrabbit: Andrew Horton
José Castro: Cesar Rospigliosi
Un postiglione: Fred Steinke

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