La fanciulla del West

Synopsis

Exactly 101 years after the world premiere of Puccini's "La fanciulla del West" at New York's Metropolitan Opera, Stockholm's Royal Opera House now presents a brilliant, modern-day interpretation of this rarely played opera. While the lead role is sung by Nina Stemme, one of today's best youthful-dramatic sopranos, the two male protagonists, John Lundgren and Aleksandrs Antonenko, can hardly be surpassed in vocal artistry and stage presence. Director Christof Loy stages the opera as an early Hollywood Western relating the impossible love of a young woman and the most wanted criminal in the West.

Additional Info

• No: A06001843
• Composer: Giacomo Puccini
• Conductor: Morandi, Pier Giorgio
• Orchestra: Kundgliga Hovkapellet / Kungliga Operans Herrkör
• Artists: Nina Stemme, John Lundgren, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Niklas Björling Rygert, Michael Schmidberger, Ola Eliasson
• Production year: 2012
• Run time: 02:16:00
• Director: Hannes Rossacher / Stage Director: Christof Loy
• Producers: A co-production of BFMI, SVT and UNITEL in cooperation with CLASSICA
• Format: HDTV