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Giacomo Puccini: La fanciulla del West
April 4, 1956, Teatro alla Scala, Milan
🇬🇧 With English subtitles and the 🇮🇹 sung Italian text on screen.
ℹ 📷 The photos illustrating the performance are the work of Scala's in-house photographer, Erio Piccagliani. Apart from the 1956 production, to which the audio recording belongs, I used photos from 1957 (when Frazzoni and Gobbi was joined by Mario Del Monaco as Johnson, and there were some changes to the supporting cast as well) and 1964 (when Corelli was Frazzoni's partner again, but Rance was played by Gian Giacomo Guelfi and the supporting cast was almost completely different). So in a few scenes I had to edit the images to re-create the original scenes from 1956 and to minimize the confusion caused by faces not belonging to the people actually singing here, at least in the case of the main characters (no AI, just old-fashioned manual montaging). I hope it's not super noticable and doesn't detract from the enjoyment.
Conductor: Antonino Votto
Chorus master: Norberto Mola
Stage director: Mario Frigerio
Sets and costumes: Nicola Benois
Minnie Falconer - Gigliola Frazzoni
Jack Rance - Tito Gobbi
Dick Johnson - Franco Corelli
Nick - Franco Ricciardi
Ashby - Ugo Novelli
Sonora - Enzo Sordello
Trin - Athos Cesarini
Sid - Michele Cazzato
Bello - Pierluigi Latinucci
Harry - Gino del Signore
Joe - Angelo Mercuriali
Happy - Carlo Forti
Jim Larkens - Giuseppe Morresi
Billy Jackrabbit - Eraldo Coda
Wowkle - Maria Amadini
Jake Wallace - Nicola Zaccaria
Josè Castro - Vittorio Tatozzi
Un postiglione - Erminio Benatti
La fanciulla del West is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini, based on the 1905 play The Girl of the Golden West by the American author David Belasco.
Time: 1849 to 1850
Place: A mining camp at the foot of the Cloudy Mountains, California.
Timestamps
00:00:00 Introduction
00:03:10 Hello, Nick!
00:07:07 "Che faranno i vecchi miei là lontano?" (Jake Wallace's song)
00:13:52 Sceriffo, Hello! (Ashby arrives)
00:16:48 Hello, Minnie! (Minnie arrives)
00:20:37 Dove eravamo? Ruth... Ezekiel...
00:24:24 La posta!
00:26:47 Ti voglio bene, Minnie (Rance, Minnie)
00:28:56 Minnie, dalla mia casa son partito (Rance)
00:31:08 Laggiù nel Soledad (Minnie)
00:33:29 Chi c'è per farmi i ricci? (Johnson arrives)
00:35:20 Benvenuto fra noi, Johnson di Sacramento!
00:37:14 Mister Johnson, voi m'avete seccato!
00:40:11 Al laccio! (Castro's capture)
00:43:37 Mister Johnson, siete rimasto indietro a farmi compagnia? (Minnie, Johnson)
00:46:41 Amai la vita e l'amo e ancor bella m'appar!
00:49:16 Quello che tacete me l'ha detto il cor
00:51:36 Povera gente!
00:58:30 Act 2 "Il mio bimbo è grande e piccino" (Wowkle)
01:00:50 Billy, è fissato? (Minnie arrives)
01:03:32 Hello! Hello! (Johnson arrives)
01:06:40 Oh, se sapeste come il vivere è allegro!
01:12:02 Un bacio, un bacio almen!
01:15:49 Sognavo... Si stava tanto bene!
01:20:00 Hello! Hello! (Rance, Nick, Sonora and Ashby arrive)
01:24:39 Vieni fuori!
01:25:40 Una parola sola, non mi difenderò... Or son sei mesi che mio padre morì
01:29:49 L'han ferito... Che importa?
01:32:27 Che c'è di nuovo, Jack?
01:37:05 Parliamoci fra noi... E si finisca! (Poker scene)
01:44:24 Act 3 Ve lo giuro, sceriffo (Nick, Rance)
01:50:21 Or piangi tu, o Minnie!
01:53:27 A morte!... Al laccio! (Johnson's capture)
01:56:20 Risparmiate lo scherno...
01:57:58 Per lei, per lei soltanto... Ch'ella mi creda
02:01:35 È Minnie! (Minnie arrives)
02:05:27 Il mio Sonora buono sarà primo al perdono...
02:09:33 Le tue parole sono di Dio... Addio mio dolce terra
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