Organization

Singer

Soprano

Chiara Isotton

Minnie

Baritone

Claudio Sgura

Jack Rance

Tenor

Riccardo Massi

Dick Johnson

Robert Lewis

Nick

Bass

Rafał Pawnuk

Ashby

Pete Thanapat

Jim Larkens

Mezzo-soprano

Thandiswa Mpongwana

Wowkle

Paweł Trojak

Jake Wallace

Conductor

Daniele Rustioni

Opéra de Lyon

Orchestra

Lyon Opera Orchestra

Others

Lyon Opera Choirs

Studio of the Opéra de Lyon

Valentin Thill

Costume designer

Dinah Ehm

Stage director

Tatjana Gürbaca

Set designer

Marc Weeger

Lighting designer

Stefan Bolliger

Chorus master

Benedict Kearns

Allen Boxer

Sonora

Matthieu Toulouse

Tshabalala Zwakele

Trin

Ramiro Maturana

Bello

Léo Vermot Desroches

Harry

Florent Karrer

Happy

Kwang Soun Kim

Billy Jackrabbit

Didier Roussel

The Pony Express rider

Paolo Stupenengo

Jose Castro

Iodáilis

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

Lyon

France

La fanciulla del West Puccini

Public

The Girl of the Golden West

Fraincis

Approved

In Puccini’s work, there are no characters more different from one another than Cio-Cio San, the little geisha in Madama Butterfly who died heartbroken because of the man who seduced and betrayed her, and Minnie, the Girl of the Golden West, with her cheating at cards, handling of firearms, and her wanting and getting outlaw Dick Johnson. Madama Butterly exists solely from male desire, she is an old-world heroine, while New World’s Girl of the Golden West brazenly acts on her own desire. She echoes Nicholas Ray’s Johnny Guitar, or Tarantino’s Django Unchained, as mentioned by Polish artist Barbara Wysocka, who directed the piece. This is the first time that this 1910 opera, which premiered at the Metropolitan Opera, is presented in Lyon. With his usual gusto, Daniele Rustioni conveys this vitally powerful music replete with intensely lyrical, violent, basic feelings.

English

Creidmheasanna feidhmíochta (Foireann & Criú )

Caitheadh

Criú

Ensemble