A Gun-and-Whiskey Gal doesn’t make a Fanciulla

Claudio Vellutini

martes, 22 de marzo de 2011

A Gun-and-Whiskey Gal doesn’t make a Fanciulla

Chicago, sábado, 12 de febrero de 2011.

Civic Opera. Giacomo Puccini, La fanciulla del West. Harold Prince, original production. Eugene Lee, original set designer. Franne Lee, original costume designer. Vincent Liotta, stage director. Scott Marr, new scenary and costumes. Jason Brown, lighting designer. Deborah Voigt (Minnie), Roy Cornelius Smith (Dick Johnson), Marco Vratogna (Jack Rance), Paul La Rosa (Handsome), René Barbera (Harry), James Kryshak (Joe), Paul Sholten (Happy), David Cangelosi (Nick), Philip Kraus (Sid), Daniel Sutin (David Portillo), Corey Crider (Jim Larkens), Craig Irvin (Ashby), Javier Bernardo (Pony Express Rider), Sam Handley (Jose Castro), Katherine Lerner (Wowkle), Evan Boyer (Billy Jackrabbitt). Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra and Chorus. David Nally, chorus master. Sir Andrew Davis, conductor

The Lyric Opera of Chicago joins the San Francisco Opera and the New York Metropolitan in Deborah Voigt’s coast-to-coast tour as Minnie, the heroine of Giacomo Puccini’s American opera La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West). The work, one of the most underrated of the composer’s mature output, just turned one hundred years. For the much-advertised centennial revival last December, the Met, which hosted the opera’s world premiere in 1910, invited Voigt to take on the leading role. The American singer had never sung it before, and chose to make her debut as Minnie in the Bay Area, probably in order to test the part without the pressure of the New York event. Last December she brought her Minnie to the East coast, and the Lyric followed soon after the Met. In Chicago, the 1978 western-movie-inspired staging by Harold Prince was…

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