Organization

Festtage Berlin

Singer

Baritone

Lukasz Goliński

Sonora

Jaka Mihelač

Bass

Frederic Jost

Jose Castro

Conductor

Antonio Pappano

Lighting designer

Olaf Freese

Dramaturge

Benjamin Wäntig

Chorus master

Martin Wright

STUNT-KOORDINATOR

Ran Arthur Braun

Soprano

Anja Kampe

Minnie

Tenor

Marcelo Álvarez

Dick Johnson

Stephan Rügamer

Nick

Michael Volle

Jack Rance

Viktor Rud

Happy

Andrés Moreno García

Adam Kutny

Bello

Florian Hoffmann

Harry

David Oštrek

Jim Larkens

Siyabonga Maqungo

Trin

Jan Martinik

Ashby

Zilvinas Miskinis

Billy Jackrabbit

Mezzo-soprano

Natalia Skrycka

Wowkle

Grigory Shkarupa

Jake Wallace

Spencer Britten

The Pony Express rider

Stage director

Lydia Steier

Costume designer

David Zinn

Set designer

Video designer

Momme Hinrichs

Stunt Coordinator

Libretto

Guelfo Civinini

Carlo Zangarini

State Opera Berlin

Orchestra

Staatskapelle Berlin

Others

Staatsopernchor Berlin

Staatsopenchor

Italian

La fanciulla del West -  (The Girl of the Golden West)

Berlin

Germany

Staatsoper Unter den Linden

La fanciulla del West Puccini

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Private

The Girl of the Golden West

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Approved

LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST | Spielzeit 2020/21 | Oper in drei Akten (1910) | Musik von Giacomo Puccini | Text von Guelfo Civinini und Carlo Zangarini nach David B...

Teaser LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST | State Opera Unter den Linden

June 13, 2021 (English text below). Premiere of LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST (The Girl from the Golden West) by Giacomo Puccini from 1910 at the State Opera Unter den Linden in Berlin. Musical director: Antonio Pappano, production: Lydia Steier. Set design and costumes: David Zinn. With: Anja Kampe (Minnie), Marcello Alvarez (Dick Johnson), Michael Volle (Jack Rance), Stephan Rügamer (Nick), Staatskapelle Berlin, Staatsoper choir (mastered by Martin Wright). Video by Holger Jacobs for kultur24 TV. German text June 13, 2021. Premiere of LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST (The Girl from the Golden West) by Giacomo Puccini from 1910 at the State Opera Unter den Linden in Berlin. Musical director: Antonio Pappano. Production director: Lydia Steier. Set design and costumes: David Zinn. With: Anja Kampe (Minnie), Marcello Alvarez (Dick Johnson),

La Fanciulla del West - Puccini - Staatsoper Berlin

California, at the heyday of the Gold Rush: the place of people’s dreams turns out to be an inexorable wasteland, governed by the law of the jungle. Minnie’s bar is the only place where people live in peaceful coexistence. It is revered by gold seekers and fiercely presided over by the gruff Sheriff Rance. But when Minnie falls in love with a stranger who turns out to be the notorious bandit Johnson, the fragile community is turned upside down.

Giacomo Puccini’s works, especially his arias from »La Bohème«, »Tosca« and »Madama Butterfly«, are among the most played operas. »La Fanciulla del West«, by contrast, which was premiered at the New York Metropolitan Opera in 1910, stands so much in the shadow of his other operas that it is only being performed at Unter den Linden now for the first time. At first glance, Puccini’s Wild West opera, in which the outcasts of society meet in search of wealth and a stroke of luck, has fewer moments of poetry and melody than most of his operas. On the other hand, he succeeded in creating a portrait of a community full of hardship and shattered dreams. The composer was rightly proud of his score’s refined timbres. Anton von Webern, who was not renowned for his affinity with Italian opera, commented appreciatively: »The score has an entirely original sound. Magnificent. Every beat is surprising. Very special sounds.«

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