La Fanciulla del West: Deutsche Oper Berlin

About the Event

The Wild West comes to the opera house in Puccini's last completed opera, the action‐packed tale of landlady Minnie.

The story of tavern landlady Minnie – who not only manages to keep her rough‐and‐ready customers in check by means of a revolver and prayer sessions in the gold rush era of the Wild West, she even succeeds in finding happiness with gang leader Dick Johnson, by saving him from the gallows at the last second – is racy and thrilling, and in Puccini´s musical version, a masterpiece of operatic literature. Apart from Puccini’s last work, the fragment of Turandot, La Fanciulla del West is his boldest, perhaps even his most "modern" opera composition.

In Italian with German and English surtitles

Conductor: Carlo Rizzi
Director: Vera Nemirova
Set design, Costume design: Klaus Werner Noack
Chorus‐Conductor: William Spaulding

Minnie: Emily Magee
Jack Rance: John Lundgren
Dick Johnson: Aleksandrs Antonenko
Nick: Clemens Bieber
Ashby: Thomas Lehman
Sonora: Seth Carico
Trin: Paul Kaufmann
Sid: Davide Luciano
Bello / Jake Wallace: Noel Bouley
Harry: Gideon Poppe
Joe: Jörg Schörner
Happy: Carlton Ford
Larkens: Andrew Harris
Billy Jackrabbit: N. N.
Wowkle: Ronnita Miller
José Castro: Stephen Bronk
A Postman: Matthew Newlin

Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin