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	Los Angeles, La Fanciulla del West (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In La Fanciulla, besides expressing his countrymen's fascination with the rising power and innocence of America, Puccini was trying out complex orchestrations and harmonies highly unsuggestive of cowgirls.
		She did not hesitate to push the ensemble to its limits; she was not afraid to run roughshod over Puccini when that meant moving along the action (this is a western, after all, and the first act drags).
		Though Del Monaco was removed as director here (after reportedly throwing a tantrum, and a bottle at the member of the crew, late last season), his replacements - Vera Calabria and Elena Kalabakos - have carried on without a hitch.
	www.tenorissimo.com /domingo/Art/lat90602.htm (3135 words)

	pucciniana! giacomo puccini and la fanciulla del west (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		La Fanciulla del West: opera in 3 acts, libretto by Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini, based on the play 'The Girl of the Golden West' by David Belasco, music by Giacomo Puccini, first performed 10th December 1910 at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, with the following cast:
		It stayed on his mind, and in the summer of that year, after his London friend Sybil Seligman had the play translated into Italian for him, he decided that this would have to be the subject for his next opera.
		Fanciulla's score is Puccini's most progressive, most modern music, that much is true, and for some listeners it may take two or three hearings to fully appreciate its beauty and exciting innovation.
	www.r-ds.com /opera/pucciniana/fanciulla.htm (618 words)

	Land of Puccini - Giacomo Puccini's La Fanciulla del West (Librettist: Carlo Zangarini, Guelfo Civinini) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In the autumn, he returned to Torre del Lago to continue with the new work, although he was frustrated with Zangarini's slow progress.
		Fanciulla was scheduled for an American premiere, and Puccini sailed for New York in November, 1910, to arrive in time to spend two weeks preparing the cast for their roles.
		La Fanciulla del West premiered at The Metropolitan Opera, New York, December 10, 1910, and was a triumph.
	www.landofpuccini.com /eng/lafanciulladelwest.asp (997 words)

	La fanciulla del West - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini, based on the play The Girl of the Golden West by David Belasco.
		Belasco, playwright for Madam Butterfly had also written The Girl of the Gold West, and Puccini selected that drama for his next opera.
		It was first performed on 10 December 1910 in New York City at the Metropolitan Opera House with Emmy Destinn as Minnie, Caruso as Dick Johnson and Pasquale Amato as Jack Rance; Arturo Toscanini conducted the premiere.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/La_fanciulla_del_West (566 words)

	LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST
		When Puccini went to America in 1907 to attend the rehearsals and premières of his four operas at the Metropolitan Opera, he was looking for a new subject for his next opera and took the opportunity to see several plays while staying in New York, including three by David Belasco.
		The history of the West impressed him, and after his friend Sybil Seligman had translated the play into Italian, he decided to use it as the basis for his new opera.
		The music of "La Fanciulla del West" is the most progressive and most modern that Puccini had written.
	www.geocities.com /airepuccini_english/LAFANCIULLA.html (534 words)

	Home Theater & Sound -- La Fanciulla del West - ***
		While any Puccini opera was greeted with some degree of honor, La Fanciulla del West’s harmonic complexity and unresolved chords left much of the audience scratching its head.
		Nonetheless, this recording has several strengths, not the least of which is Placido Domingo singing at the height of his powers, hitting high Bb in chapter 4 of Act 3 with both passion and precision.
		La Fanciulla del West is a wonderful opera that deserves better treatment.
	www.hometheatersound.com /dvd/la_fanciulla_del_west.htm (579 words)

	La fanciulla del West @ Royal Opera House, London
		The fruits of this artistic freedom include the semi-operetta La rondine, the trilogy of contrasting one-acters Il trittico, and the depiction of the California gold rush, La fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West).
		La fanciulla was ideal material for Puccini in this mood.
		Perhaps because it does not conform to the stereotypes established by his earlier works, La fanciulla has never been one of Puccini's most popular operas, despite its many innovations.
	www.musicomh.com /opera/fanciulla_0905.htm (740 words)

	Amazon.com: La Fanciulla del West: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		La Fanciulla del West: 1 Che faranno i vecchi miei
		Del Monaco is not great with character but he has a wonderful ringing sound and a big male persona.
		This is the Old West and Puccini's Italian style is nearly sacrificed for what could pass for an American opera or even a Broadway musical.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000001G8A?v=glance (2141 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		You wouldn't expect too much of an entrance from someone called Minnie, but, at the sound of gunshots, Puccini's "girl of the golden West" sweeps into the Polka Saloon to a thrilling deployment of one of the composer's most sumptuous tunes.
		But there's only one Minnie - a woman alone in a world of men - and Puccini, that most natural of all musical dramatists, made certain that her entrance would be one we'd remember.
		And yet La Fanciulla del West has always been the big sleeper among Puccini operas.
	enjoyment.independent.co.uk /music/reviews/article313677.ece (670 words)

	Puccini La Fanciulla del West [IL]: Classical CD Reviews- Nov 2003 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		After the successes of La Bohème, Tosca, and Madama Butterfly, Puccini strengthened his resolve to make La fanciulla del West a different kind of opera from which all elements of sweetness would be ruthlessly expunged.
		Although the melodies in The Girl of the Golden West are not so immediately appealing (no interruptions for applause are heard in this performance), nevertheless the opera has plenty of harmonic and instrumental innovations and plenty of action to sustain interest.
		Ravel perceptively recognised that here was a work in which Puccini had put the orchestra in the role of the protagonist; and one might note that the sound-world of Debussy rather than Richard Strauss is sometimes evoked in this opera.
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2003/Nov03/Puccini_Fanciula.htm (756 words)

	mondo marion: La Fanciulla del West
		La Fanciulla del West, which had its world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1910, may be Puccini's greatest opera: a dark, harmonically daring score that was extolled by such avatars of modernity as Anton Webern.
		Still, Fanciulla (the title translates as "The Girl of the Golden West") has never become a repertory staple, owing, some say, to its creaky Western cliches and ostensible lack of pretty tunes.
		Yes, the lovers ride off into the sunset, but the opera begins and ends with loss: the homesickness of Minnie's barflies, Minnie and Dick's sorrowful leave-taking, and the miners' anguished farewell to their darling girl.
	www.mondo-marion.com /fanciulla.html (505 words)

	La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West) - The Mines of Sulpher - Imeneo - Patience - New York Magazine ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		But there is at least one alternative: Puccini’s deliciously exotic opera La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West), set in the “Cloudy Mountains” of gold-rush California.
		Set in England’s West Country around 1760, the plot deftly crosses Poe with Pirandello to create a horror tale steeped in irony and a skewed perception of reality.
		Under David Schweizer’s direction, the cast is led by Brandon Jovanovich as Boconnion, the renegade soldier who perpetrates the crime; Beth Clayton as Rosalind, his mistreated paramour; and Caroline Worra as Jenny, the troupe’s leading actress and principal plague carrier.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/arts/music/classical/reviews/9593 (943 words)

	La Fanciulla del West
		The California Gold Rush provides the dramatic backdrop for Puccini's La Fanciulla del West, also known as "The Girl of the Golden West." Minnie, the only woman in a mining camp, is idolized by the lonely and homesick miners.
		Although La Bohème, Madama Butterfly, and Tosca were already world-famous successes, Puccini considered this his best work, and the vivid orchestration and sweeping vocal writing confirm his judgement.
		La Fanciulla del West is one of his most compelling and evocative operas.
	www.glimmerglass.org /Fanciulla.htm (150 words)

	Opera Orchestra of New York—LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST
		In a time and place where Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West) only appears rarely, amazingly two productions are scheduled this season in New York.
		La Fanciulla deservedly remains the fl sheep of the Puccini opera family.
		With its corny plot, La Fanciulla seems to be a perfect opera for concert staging—something that OONY has done successfully for neglected operas for decades.
	www.robertaonthearts.com /id240.html (658 words)

	Fanciulla del West, La (The Girl of the West) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Fanciulla del West, La (The Girl of the West)
		Libretto by Guelfo Civinini and Carl Zangarini, after the play The Girl of the Golden West by David Belasco.
		Minnie evocatively recalls her happy childhood in Laggiù nel Soledad (Down there in Soledad) while Johnson pleads to his captors not to tell Minnie of his coming death in Ch'ella mi creda libero e lontano (So that she may think me free and far away).
	www.naxos.com /NewDesign/fintro.files/bintro.files/operas/Fanciulla_del_West_La(The_Girl_of_the_West).htm (311 words)

	Sheet Music publication - La fanciulla del west ~ Puccini - It
		Sheet Music publication - La fanciulla del west ~ Puccini - It
		La fanciulla del west ~ Puccini - It Composer: Giacomo Puccini
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	music.netstoreusa.com /504/HL50484639.shtml (200 words)

	Find in a Library: La fanciulla del West The girl of the golden West.
		Find in a Library: La fanciulla del West The girl of the golden West.
		La fanciulla del West The girl of the golden West.
		by Giacomo Puccini; Renata Tebaldi; Mario Del Monaco; Cornell MacNeil; Giorgio Tozzi; Accademia di Santa Cecilia.
	www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/99f003fd8bf225ed.html (85 words)

	Amazon.com: La Fanciulla del West in Full Score: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Set in the days of the California Gold Rush, La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West) is a staple of the repertoire, filled with dramatic touches, much lyric beauty and brilliant orchestration.
		This book contain the greatest Puccini`s Opera la Fanciulla del West in full score.
		La Fanciulla del West is a great opera and you will found beautifull music on this book.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0486297128?v=glance (502 words)

	Baltimore Opera - 2004-2005 Season - La Fanciulla del West (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Puccini created this "Spaghetti Western" fueled by tales of the American Wild West of the California Gold Rush.
		It is his second composition based on a work by playwright David Belasco (the first being Madama Butterfly) and evidence of Puccini's genius can be found throughout- from the tenor's plea for mercy in "Ch'ella mi creda", to the winner-take-all poker scene in the magnificent final ensemble.
		In November, 1910, Fanciulla appropriately became the first world premiere in the history of the Metropolitan Opera.
	www.baltimoreopera.com /season2004/fanciulla.asp (246 words)

	Season \| NYC Opera
		La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West) is Puccini at his most surprising.
		Orchestrally, La Fanciulla del West has all of the brilliant characteristics of a late Puccini opera.
		Breathtaking passages for woodwinds, harps, and percussion punctuate the score in complex, brilliant style, while sumptuous arias flow seamlessly throughout.
	www.nycopera.com /productions/productiondetail.aspx?id=25&src=l&detect=yes (221 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts critics \| La Fanciulla del West
		Andrea Gruber and Jose Cura in La Fanciulla del West.
		Piero Faggioni's 1977 staging of Puccini's spaghetti western, La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West) hasn't been seen at Covent Garden for 10 years, but it has remained fondly regarded for the sheer monumentality of its sets by James Bond movie designer Ken Adam.
		Refurbished for this revival it is the operatic equivalent of a listed building, handsome to look at, but not quite the last word in modern amenities.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/critic/review/0,1169,1572322,00.html (314 words)

	La Fanciulla Del West (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This 1991 La Scala production of 'La Fanciulla del West' has one major drawback - one that is nearly fatal to it - and that is the singing of Mara Zampieri.
		As far as I know, there is only one other competing DVD of 'Fanciulla,' and that is a 1983 production from Covent Garden with Carol Neblett and Placido Domingo.
		I have not seen it and cannot compare it with this one, but I've read (and heard) that it comes up short as well, primarily because the production is poor.
	www.armchairfans.co.uk /books/B00027LD66 (244 words)

	La Fanciulla del West photographs - page 1
		The cast of La Fanciulla del West ina scene from the opera
		Elizabeth Blancke-Biggs as Minnie in a scene from La Fanciulla del West
		Nicola Stonehouse as Wowkle and Dominic Barrand as Billy Jack Rabbit in a scene from La Fanciulla del West
	www.rbkc.gov.uk /ohparchive/photographs/lafanciulla/xsl_gallery.asp?pages=2&cpage=1 (169 words)

	Puccini: "Ch'ella mi creda libero e lontano" from La fanciulla del West
		Puccini: "Ch'ella mi creda libero e lontano" from La fanciulla del West
		In 1938 I had persuaded William S. Paley, president of the Columbia Broadcasting System, to purchase the old American Record Corporation, which controlled Columbia Records, and on January 1, 1939, I...
		This excerpt from Puccini's "Girl of the Golden West" represents Domingo's voice at its peak and illustrates his exceptional insight into the operatic characters he portrays.
	www.sonymusic.com /artists/SoundtrackForACentury/ie/track/1675.html (153 words)

	Video Review: La Fanciulla del West, Met 1992 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This new Met recording suggests they have reached an accommodation with both aspects.
		Giancarlo Del Monaco's production (sympathetically filmed by Brian Large) gives us Domingo on horseback twice, the frozen wastes as well as the cosy cabin in Act II and a ghost town in Act III.
		The visual quality is not as good as it should be - dark and murky, as often seems to be the case with recordings from the Met.
	www.tenorissimo.com /domingo/Articles/bbc893.htm (221 words)

	La Fanciulla Del West on DVD - MovieWeb
		Loren Maazel conducts this "original spaghetti western" set in the 1849 California gold rush.
		Puccini's neglected masterpiece receives new attention in this production from La Scala.
		DVD Product Data Copyright 1981- 2004 Muze Inc. For personal non-commercial use only.
	movieweb.com /dvd/dvd.php?809478030041 (91 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Puccini - La Fanciulla del West: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Performer: Renata Tebaldi, Mario Del Monaco, et al.
		Act One: Io non son che una povera fanciulla - Renata Tebaldi
		Performed by Rome Santa Cecilia Academy Chorus / Rome Santa Cecilia Academy Orchestra with Renata Tebaldi, Mario Del Monaco, Cornell MacNeil, Piero de Palma, Silvio Maionica, Giorgio Tozzi, Dario Caselli, Biancamaria Casoni, Giorgio Giorgetti, Enzo Guagni, Virgilio Carbonari, Edio Peruzzi, Mario Carlin, Angelo Mercuriali, Michele Cazzato, Giuseppe Morresi, Athos Cesarini
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000041UN (533 words)

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