Organization

Conductor

David Crescenzi

Stage director

Rareş Trifan

Choreographer

Dan Haja

Set designer

Adrian Damian

Video designer

Hawash M. Magdy

Anca Opriș Popdan

Chorus master

Corneliu Felecan

Alina Simona Nistor

Cristina Albu

Adela Bihari

Singer

Soprano

Valentina Boi

Minnie

Tenor

Hector Lopez

Dick Johnson

Baritone

Florin Estefan

Jack Rance

Cristian Mogoșan

Nick

Bass

Petre Burcă

Ashby

Geani Brad

Sonora

Eusebiu Huțan

Trin

Cristian Hodrea

Sebastian Balaj

Bello

Tiberiu Szasz

Harry

Florin Pop

David Pogana

Happy

Corneliu Huțanu

Jim Larkens

Simonfi Sandor

Billy Jackrabbit

Mezzo-soprano

Alexandra Lesiu

Wowkle

Andrada Ioana Roşu-Vaida

Marius Aron

Jake Wallace

Ionuţ Bogdan Lupu

Jose Castro

Andrei Toader

The Pony Express rider

Lucian Dusa

Lelia Serafinceanu

Others

Choir of the Cluj National Opera

Orchestra

Operei Naționale Române Cluj-Napoca

Opera Națională Română Cluj-Napoca

Ballet

Ballet Ensemble of the Romanian National Opera in Cluj-Napoca

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

Cluj-Napoca

Romania

Opera Romana Cluj-Napoca

La fanciulla del West Puccini

Public

The Girl of the Golden West

Approved

A three-act opera with a libretto by Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini, based on the 1905 play The Girl of the Golden West by American playwright David Belasco.

Innovative music, dramatic situations and lively plot. This is the opera La Fanciulla del West, in which Giacomo Puccini poses one of the most powerful questions of all: love or law?

After the success of Madama Butterfly, Puccini searched for a new libretto, eventually choosing American playwright David Belasco’s The Girl of the Golden West. The libretto was completed in August 1909, and Puccini took almost a year to complete the score. Having its world premiere in 1910 at the Metropolitan Opera, the new opera showed the composer’s fascination with exotic cultures. In this case, he heads to California to explore the Golden Rush.

The story invites you into the atmosphere of the American West and tells the stories of two lovers, Minnie and Dick. Discovering that Dick is actually a bandit from a band of thieves, wanted by the name of Ramirez, Minnie, deeply in love, plans his rescue. The local sheriff is attracted by Minnie, but all goes dark when he discovers she is hiding Ramirez. Can the young bandit put his past behind him and start all over again with Minnie? This is the question that provides the suspense of the whole story.

The show has two intermissions and ends around 10.oo p.m.
Recommended age: 12+

English

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble