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Afternoon Concert: Thursday Opera Matinee: Puccini - La fanciulla del West

Puccini - La fanciulla del West

10/02/2011

BBC Radio 3 - Afternoon Concert

Deborah Voigt stars in Puccini's opera La fanciulla del West at the New York Met.

Deborah Voigt stars in Puccini's opera La fanciulla del West at New York's Metropolitan Opera. Plus Haydn and Sibelius from the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Deborah Voigt stars as Puccini's Girl of the Golden West at the New York Metropolitan Opera. It's the 1840s and the Californian Gold Rush is in full swing - and Minnie, the upstanding tough cookie of a local bar owner, falls for the local outlaw Dick Johnson. But the sheriff Jack Rance loves her too... Puccini thought the opera was the best he'd ever written: here's your chance to find out why.

Presented by Penny Gore

Minnie ..... Deborah Voigt, soprano 
Dick Johnson ..... Marcello Giordani, tenor 
Jack Rance ..... Lucio Gallo, baritone 
Nick ..... Tony Stevenson, tenor 
Ashby ..... Keith Miller, bass 
Sonora ..... Dwayne Croft, baritone 
Trin ..... Hugo Vera, tenor 
Sid ..... Trevor Scheunemann, baritone 
Handsome ..... Richard Bernstein, baritone 
Harry ..... Adam Laurence Herskowitz, tenor 
Joe ..... Michael Forest, tenor 
Happy ..... David Crawford, baritone 
Jim Larkens ..... Edward Parks, bass 
Billy Jackrabbit ..... Philip Cokorinos, bass 
Wowkle ..... Ginger Costa-Jackson, mezzo-soprano 
Jack Wallace ..... Oren Gradus, baritone 
The Pony Express rider ..... Edward Mout, tenor 
José Castro ..... Jeff Mattsey, baritone 
Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra 
Nicola Luisotti, conductor 

4.15pm
BBC Symphony Orchestra

Haydn: Trumpet Concerto 
Giuliano Sommerhalder, trumpet
Jiri Belohlavek, conductor

4.40pm
Sibelius: Rakastava 
Arild Remmereit, conductor.

Afternoon Concert: Thursday Opera Matinee

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