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Saturday, January 23, 1:00 pm

La Fanciulla del West

New Production, Met Debut

Music by Giacomo Puccini | Libretto by Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini

Soprano Vida Miknevičiūtė will make her company debut singing the role of Minnie in Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West, replacing Sondra Radvanovsky who has withdrawn due to personal reasons.

Puccini’s exhilarating drama of the Wild West returns in a new staging by Richard Jones, marking the company’s first new production of La Fanciulla del West in more than 30 years. Soprano Sondra Radvanovsky makes her role debut as Minnie, the tough tavern owner with a heart of gold who finds love when she least expects it. Tenor SeokJong Baek is the dashing bandit who rambles into the remote California mining town to steal her heart, opposite baritone Christopher Maltman as the lawman determined to deliver justice—and win Minnie for himself. Maestro Keri-Lynn Wilson takes the podium to conduct one of opera’s most action-packed adventures, live from the Met stage to cinemas worldwide.

 

Conductor: Keri-Lynn Wilson                   Production: Richard Jones

Minnie: Vida Miknevičiūtė                   Set Designer: Miriam Buether

Dick Johnson: SeokJong Baek                  Costume Designer: Nicky Gillibrand

Jack Rance: Christopher Maltman           Lighting Designer: Mimi Jordan Sherin

Choreographer: Lucy Burge

Graham Berwind, III Chorus Director: Tilman Michael

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