PUCCINI: Fanciulla del West (La) (La Scala, 1991) (NTSC)

Puccini
FANCIULLA DEL WEST

Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala
Conductor Lorin Maazel

Puccini's Wild West opera has the California gold rush as its dramatic backdrop for a story in which Minnie, the only woman in a mining camp, gambles on her one chance of happiness. Lorin Maazel conducts a fine cast in Jonathan Miller's 1991 production of the compelling and evocative opera, which Puccini himself considered his best work.

Minnie Mara Zampieri, Jack Rance Juan Pons, Dick Johnson (Ramerrez) Placido Domingo
Nick Sergio Bertocchi, Ashby Luigi Roni, Sonora Antonio Salvadori

Part four in this collectable mid-price set, the DVD includes a 28 page booklet with full libretto by G. Civinini and C. Zangarini, after the play The Girl of the Golden West by David Belasco.

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ALL REGIONS - Running time 144 mins
Subtitles GB
Picture format 4:3
Sound format Dolby Stereo
Cat. No OA LS3004 D
Barcode 809478030041
Dimensions (mm) H-192/W-136/D-14

Composer(s): Puccini, Giacomo
Lyricist(s): Civinini, Guelfo; Zangarini, Carlo
Conductor(s): Maazel, Lorin
Orchestra(s): Milan La Scala Orchestra
Choir(s): Milan La Scala Chorus
Artist(s): Bertocchi, Sergio; Domingo, Plácido; Pons, Juan; Roni, Luigi; Salvadori, Antonio; Zampieri, Mara
Label: Opus Arte
Genre: Opera DVD
Period: Romantic
Catalogue No: OALS3004D
Barcode: 0809478030041
Release Date: 07/2004

GIACOMO PUCCINI (1858-1924)
Descended from a family of musicians, Puccini was the most important Italian opera composer in the generation after Verdi. He was born and educated in Lucca, later studying under Ponchielli at the Milan Conservatory. He began his career as a composer of opera with Le Villi, on the story familiar from Adam’s ballet Giselle, but first won significant success in 1893 with Manon Lescaut. A musical dramatist of considerable power, if sometimes lacking in depth, he wrote 12 operas in total, the last, Turandot, still unfinished at the time of his death in 1924.

Operas
The opera Manon Lescaut, using the full name of the heroine of the 18th-century Abbé Prévost’s novel to distinguish the work from Massenet’s treatment of the same subject, won great success. Manon, seduced by the old Géronte, returns to her former lover, Des Grieux, but is betrayed to the authorities and transported to America, where she dies in the arms of her lover, who has followed her. La Bohème, first staged in 1896, centres on the love of Mimì and the poet Rodolfo in the Latin Quarter of Paris, a story of innocent love, betrayal and the final death of the heroine. Tosca, staged first in Rome in 1900, deals with the love of the singer Tosca for the painter Cavaradossi, their implication in revolutionary activities, and their death through the machinations of the wicked police chief Scarpia, himself murdered by Tosca. Madama Butterfly is a story of love betrayed, the innocent Japanese heroine of the title deserted by her faithless American husband and finally compelled to suicide. La Fanciulla del West (‘The Girl of the Golden West’) is set in a slightly improbable Wild West, while the triptych Il Trittico, three short operas that include Gianni Schicchi, attempts a change of mood. Puccini’s last opera, Turandot, based on a Chinese story by the 18th-century dramatist Gozzi, makes inappropriate use of Chinese melodies, but is a moving study of the love of the suitor Prince Calaf for the icy-hearted and cruel Princess Turandot. All ends happily, but not before moments of suspense, marked by the famous tenor aria ‘Nessun dorma’ (‘Let no one sleep’).

Chamber and Choral Music
Some of the musical material of a particularly poignant moment in Manon Lescaut appears in a set of pieces for string quartet by Puccini, Crisantemi (‘Chrysanthemums’), part of a very small output of instrumental music, little of which was published by the composer. His Messa di Gloria, rediscovered relatively recently, was written in 1880, marking the end of Puccini’s studies in Lucca. His orchestral Preludio sinfonico also dates from this early period of his career.

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