UNITEL and CLASSICA present LA DEL FANCIULLA WEST GIACOMO PuccINI Nina Stemme Pier Giorgio Morandi John Lundgren Aleksandrs Antonenko Royal Swedish Opera House GIACOMO PuccINI LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST Conductor Pier Giorgio Morandi Orchestra The Royal Opera Orchestra Chorus The Royal Opera Male Chorus Chorus Master Bo Wannefors Minnie Nina Stemme Exactly 101 years after the dazzling world premiere of Giacomo Jack Rance John Lundgren Puccini’s “La fanciulla del West” at New York’s Metropolitan Dick Johnson / Ramerrez Aleksandrs Antonenko Opera – under the direction of Arturo Toscanini and with Enrico Nick Niklas Björling Rygert Caruso in the lead male role – Stockholm’s Royal Opera House Ashby Michael Schmidberger now presents an equally brilliant, modern-day interpretation of this Sonora Ola Eliasson rarely played opera, also with a stellar cast. Trin Karl Rombo Sid Gunnar Lundberg Singing the lead role is Nina Stemme, who, as one of today’s best Bello Linus Börjesson youthful-dramatic sopranos, portrays all of Puccini’s great female Harry Conny Thimander roles. The two male protagonists, the markedly-voiced baritone Joe Magnus Kyhle John Lundgren and the Italianate Latvian tenor Aleksandrs Happy Kristian Flor Antonenko, can hardly be surpassed in charisma, vocal artistry Larkens Ian Power and stage presence. The excellent musical direction is in the Billy Jackrabbit Alar Pintsaar experienced hands of the internationally sought-after Puccini Wowkle Agneta Lundgren specialist Pier Giorgio Morandi. Jake Wallace John Erik Eleby José Castro Anton Eriksson Puccini himself described “La fanciulla” as his best and most The Pony Express Rider Jon Nilsson important work on the path to a new orchestral idiom. The opera is based on the melodrama The Girl of the Golden West by David Staged by Christof Loy Belasco and plays in a gold-rush camp in America’s West, a one- of-a-kind venue for a musical stage work. Director Christof Loy Video Director Hannes Rossacher stages the opera as an early Hollywood Western and depicts the action surrounding the basically impossible but passionately Length approx. 140' erupting love story of Minnie and the most wanted criminal in the West as a psychologically finely honed character study of great suggestive power. Shot in HDTV 1080 Cat. no. A06001843 “Giacomo Puccini’s ‘Fanciulla del West’, which was finally recognized as a masterpiece in recent years and is almost exactly A co-production of BFMI, 101 years old, takes place, curiously enough, in the far North, in a SVT and UNITEL premiere so outstandingly wonderful that one could do nothing to in cooperation with CLASSICA improve it”. (Die Welt) Design: luebbeke.com WORLD SALES: C Major Entertainment +49-(0)3030306464 All rights reserved · credits not contractual Different territories · credits not rights All reserved · [email protected] www.unitelclassica.com Operan Kenney/Kunliga Alexander Photos: ©.