(Recorded 27 October 2018)
In streaming: 27/28 July,2020
Puccini’s musical vision of the American West is vividly brought to life in Giancarlo Del Monaco’s atmospheric production.
Conductor: Marco Armiliato
Production: Giancarlo del Monaco
Puccini’s ‘La fanciulla del West’ is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini, based on the play The Girl of the Golden West by the American author David Belasco.
Performers: Eva-Maria Westbroek, Jonas Kaufmann, Zeljko Lucic.
Metropolitan Opera Choir and Orchestra.
Recorded 27 October 2018.