Name: La fanciulla del West
Start: 2018-01-12
End: 2018-01-12
Location: Opernhaus

Organization

Singer

Soprano

Catherine Naglestad

Minnie

Tenor

Brandon Jovanovich

Dick Johnson

Baritone

Scott Hendricks

Jack Rance

Jamez McCorkle

Nick

Martin Zysset

Bass

Pavel Daniluk

Ashby

Cheyne Davidson

Sonora

Jonathan Abernethy

Trin

Valeriy Murga

Thobela Ntshanyana

Harry

Boguslaw Bidzinski

Dmytro Kalmuchyn

Happy

Tomasz Kumiega

Bello

Cody Quattlebaum

Jim Larkens

Donald Thomson

Billy Jackrabbit

Mezzo-soprano

Karina Demurova

Wowkle

Yuriy Tsiple

Jake Wallace

Alexander Kiechle

Jose Castro

Omer Kobiljak

The Pony Express rider

Conductor

Marco Armiliato

Stage director

Barrie Kosky

Set designer

Rufus Didwiszus

Costume designer

Klaus Bruns

Lighting designer

Franck Evin

Chorus master

Ernst Raffelsberger

Dramaturge

Claus Spahn

Opernhaus Zürich

Others

Chor der Oper Zürich

Orchestra

Philharmonia Zürich

Statistenverein am Opernhaus Zürich

Italian

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

Zurich

Switzerland

Opernhaus

La fanciulla del West Puccini

Public

The Girl of the Golden West

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Approved

Trailer zur Neuproduktion «La fanciulla del West», Oper von Giacomo Puccini, Premiere am 22. Juni 2014 - Musikalische Leitung: Marco Armiliato, Inszenierung:...

La Fanciulla del West
Giacomo Puccini's opera, which premiered in 1910, is often staged as a Western with a saloon and guns smoking, but the director Barrie Kosky tells the story about the bar owner Minnie, who lives alone among men in a gold digger camp in the American west, in his Zurich production as one Thriller about desolate, lonely people who desperately fight for their existence and their redemption through love «in the last bar, in the very last village, at the godforsaken end of the world». Kosky was inspired by the stylistic devices of great American cinema, which Puccini anticipated in his score with the cinematic build-up of tension and his compositional realism. The seedy world of a filthy bar Minnie's hut as a narrow, poor room and a muddy ruined house in the gangster hunt finale provide him with the external framework for exciting scenic concreteness: Kosky brings a gripping Puccini thriller with love and action elements to the stage. As in the premiere, the charismatic Catherine Naglestad in the role of Minnie and the strong character actor Scott Hendricks as the rough Sheriff Rance form a highly theatrical opponent pair. Brandon Jovanovich – well known in Zurich as Sergej, Florestan or Tambourmajor – makes his debut in the brilliant tenor role of Dick Johnson. As in the premiere, the charismatic Catherine Naglestad in the role of Minnie and the strong character actor Scott Hendricks as the rough Sheriff Rance form a highly theatrical opponent pair. Brandon Jovanovich – well known in Zurich as Sergej, Florestan or Tambourmajor – makes his debut in the brilliant tenor role of Dick Johnson. As in the premiere, the charismatic Catherine Naglestad in the role of Minnie and the strong character actor Scott Hendricks as the rough Sheriff Rance form a highly theatrical opponent pair. Brandon Jovanovich – well known in Zurich as Sergej, Florestan or Tambourmajor – makes his debut in the brilliant tenor role of Dick Johnson.

La fanciulla del West
Giacomo Puccinis 1910 uraufgeführte Oper wird gerne als Western mit Saloon und rauchenden Colts auf die Bühne gebracht, aber der Regisseur Barrie Kosky erzählt die Geschichte um die Barbesitzerin Minnie, die alleine unter Männern in einem Goldgräbercamp im amerikanischen Westen lebt, in seiner Zürcher Inszenierung als einen Thriller desolat vereinsamter Menschen, die «in der letzten Bar, im allerletzten Dorf, am gottverlassenenen Ende der Welt» verzweifelt um ihre Existenz und ihre Erlösung durch die Liebe kämpfen. Kosky hat sich dabei von den Stilmitteln des grossen amerikanischen Kinos inspirieren lassen, das Puccini mit dem filmischen Spannungsaufbau und seinem kompositorischen Realismus in seiner Partitur vorausahnte. Die heruntergekommene Welt einer verdreckten Bar, Minnies Hütte als enges ärmliches Zimmer und eine verschlammte Hausruine im Gangsterjagd-­Finale liefert ihm den äusseren Rahmen für spannungsvolle szenische Konkretion: Kosky bringt einen packenden Puccini-Krimi mit Liebes- und Actionelementen auf die Bühne. Wie schon in der Premiere bilden die charismatische Catherine Naglestad in der Rolle der Minnie und der starke Charakterdarsteller Scott Hendricks als raubeiniger Sheriff Rance dabei ein höchst theaterwirksames Gegenspieler-Paar. Brandon Jovanovich – als Sergej, Florestan oder Tambourmajor in Zürich bestens bekannt – gibt sein Debüt in der Tenor-Glanzrolle des Dick Johnson.

Deutsch

The Girl of the Golden West by Puccini, Fri 12 Jan 2018, From (2017/2018), Directed by Barrie Kosky,, Conductor Marco Armiliato, Opernhaus, Zurich, Switzerland

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