La Fanciulla del West • Festival Puccini | August 29, 2026
Experience La fanciulla del West, the opera about love and deceit in the Wild West of California (1850). Featuring powerful music and a compelling plot.
€345
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Alongside Turandot, the Puccini Festival features La fanciulla del West – Puccini’s gripping operatic epic set in the American Wild West. This three-act opera premiered to great acclaim at the Metropolitan Theatre in New York on December 10, 1910. Inspired by David Belasco’s play The Girl of the Golden West, Puccini created a modern, detailed, and emphatic musical language. It was particularly innovative for its use of a wind machine to produce raw, powerful sounds that perfectly captured the rugged atmosphere of the Gold Rush era. Experience this unusual opera, which dramatically illuminates themes of love, despair, and redemption against the backdrop of California in 1850.
Story of La fanciulla del West by Giacomo Puccini
The story is set in California in 1850. Minnie, the spirited proprietor of the Polka saloon, is the secret love of all the gold miners. Though Sheriff Jack Rance declares his love, she doesn’t reciprocate. The arrival of the charming stranger Dick Johnson immediately captivates Minnie, and the two fall in love. The miners depart to hunt the gang led by the feared bandit Ramerrez. Soon after, Minnie learns that Dick Johnson is actually Ramerrez, who intended to steal the miners’ gold. When the Sheriff tracks the wounded Dick to Minnie’s cabin, she proposes a poker game: if Rance wins, he takes both her and the bandit; if Minnie wins, he sets Dick free. Minnie cheats and thus saves her beloved. In the third act, the miners capture Dick, but they are moved by Minnie’s passionate plea and grant the couple freedom to start a new life together.
Cast and Creative Team of La fanciulla del West
Opera in three acts
Libretto by Guelfo Civinini e Carlo Zangarini
First performance New York, Metropolitan Theatre, 10 December 1910
Staging of the puccini festival
Conductor • Daniel Oren
CAST
Minnie • Anna Pirozzi
Jack Rance • Claudio Sgura
Dick Johnson • Yusif Eyvazov
Booking Process
Music trip to Festival Puccini for 3 days / 2 nights with tickets for the opera “La fanciulla del West”. Each travel package is put together individually according to your wishes. Please select a date on the calendar and click on “Add to cart”. When we receive your booking request with the selection of the date, we will send you an individual offer with different hotels and ticket categories to choose from. Only after your selection, you will receive a travel contract and a first invoice to confirm the booking.
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Performance Dates La fanciulla del West
2026-08-29 ... 2026-09-05
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Torre del Lago Via delle Torbiere, Torre del Lago (LU), Tuscany, Italy
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La Fanciulla del West • Festival Puccini | September 5, 2026
Torre del Lago Via delle Torbiere, Torre del Lago (LU), Tuscany, ItalyExperience La fanciulla del West, the opera about love and deceit in the Wild West of California (1850). Featuring powerful music and a compelling plot.
€345
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