La Fanciulla del West - Opernhaus Zürich (Sept-Oct 2014) - La Fanciulla del West - Opernhaus Zürich (Sept-Oct 2014)

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The story of the The Girl from the Golden West is sensational. Minnie runs a saloon in a Californian gold mining camp and is being wooed by the sinister Sheriff Jack Rance, but she has given her heart to the gangster Dick Johnson, alias Ramerrez, for whom an arrest warrant has been issued. There are manhunts, a life-and-death game of poker and a spectacular final scene under the gallows. Yet Giacomo Puccini did not turn his opera, premièred in 1910 at the New York Met under Arturo Toscanini, into a musical western. Rather than action and smoking revolvers, he was interested in the emotional state of his protagonists, all of whom are displaced, rootless fortune hunters. Victims of false hopes, they run aground in Minnie’s saloon and attempt to overcome their loneliness with whisky, poker and futile love affairs. Our revival presents the same artists who were heard at the première last season: Catherine Naglestad is Minnie, Zoran Todorovich her beloved criminal Dick Johnson, and Scott Hendricks will be in the role of Sheriff Jack Rance. Barrie Kosky, who is not only a director, but also runs the Komische Oper Berlin, will stage the production. Critics voted his theatre “Opera House of the Year” in the 2012/13 season, due not least to his artistic daring as director at his own theatre.

More information is available on the operahouse's official website.

Schedule

September 24, 2014 19:00:00

September 27, 2014 19:00:00

October 05, 2014 14:00:00

October 10, 2014 19:00:00

Casting

Barrie Kosky

Marco Armiliato

Catherine Naglestad

Zoran Todorovich

Scott Hendricks

Martin Zysset

Pavel Daniluk

Cheyne Davidson

Dmitry Ivanchey

Reinhard Mayr

Ivan Thirion

Yujoong Kim

Andreas Winkler

Oleg Loza

Alexei Botnarciuc

Dimitri Pkhaladze

Judit Kutasi

Yuriy Tsiple

Roberto Lorenzi

Airam Hernández

Work's characters list

Director

Conductor

Minnie

Dick Johnson, alias Ramerrez

Jack Rance

Nick

Ashby

Sonora

Trin

Sid

Bello

Harry

Joe

Happy

Jim Larkens

Billy Jackrabbit

Wowkle

Jake Wallace

José Castro

The Pony Express rider

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