La fanciulla del West: An opera seen through a haze of cowboy stereotypes - 3/5 Puccini’s work set in the Gold Rush of ...

Evans’s credible production roots the action in time and place. Amanda Echalaz is a richly drawn and touching Minnie and conductor Matthew Kofi Waldren adds colour and drama ...

The Metropolitan Opera's production of La Fanciulla del West, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the opera's 1910 world premiere at the Met, will air April 24 at 12 p.m. ET on PBS (check local ...

LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST is now open at The Met! Soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek sings Puccini's gun-slinging heroine in this romantic epic of the Wild West, with the heralded return of tenor Jonas Kaufmann ...

Puccini's La Fanciulla del West (Girl of the Golden West), is his best, least-known opera. It premiered Dec. 10, 1910 at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, with conductor Arturo Toscanini leading a ...

COOPERSTOWN – The Glimmerglass Opera production of Puccini’s “La Fanciulla del West” (“The Girl of the Golden West”) is the kind of stirring, heart-in-your-throat production that has opera lovers ...

Minnie (Eva-Maria Westbroek) doesn’t quite trust the mysterious Mr. Johnson (Yusif Eyvazov) in La fanciulla del West. Ken Howard / Met Opera That most fascinating and most heartbreaking of all Puccini ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. It is a measure of a production’s durability if it can withstand any number of cast changes and still come up fresh.

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Cori Ellison MUSICAL centenaries are double-edged occasions. They can inspire illuminating perspectives on worthy topics, or they can be little ...

It's more than 20 years since a major British opera company last presented a new production of what has been called the first spaghetti western. La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West) is ...