Browse: Puccini - La fanciulla del West
This page lists all recordings of La fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West) by Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (1858-1924).
Puccini: La fanciulla del West
Jonas Kaufmann (Dick Johnson), Nina Stemme (Minnie), Tomasz Konieczny (Jack Rance)
Orchester & Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Franz Welser-Most
Stemme and Jonas Kaufmann succeed in making Johnson and Minnie’s last-chance-love thoroughly believable. Their singing is magnificent: supple, authoritative, sincere and tender, with due attention... — More…
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Puccini: La fanciulla del West
Jonas Kaufmann (Dick Johnson), Nina Stemme (Minnie), Tomasz Konieczny (Jack Rance)
Orchester & Chor der Wiener Staatsoper, Franz Welser-Most
The star couple are on top form...In the theatre Stemme sounded one size larger vocally than Kaufmann but the tenor's burnished tone and romantic magnetism come across impressively on disc. Tomasz... — More…
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Puccini: La fanciulla del West
Carol Neblett (Minnie), Plácido Domingo (Dick Johnson), Sherrill Milnes (Jack Rance)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Zubin Mehta
This opera depicts the triangular relationship between Minnie, the saloon owner and 'mother' to the entire town of gold miners, Jack Rance, the sheriff and Dick Johnson (alias Ramerrez), a bandit... — More…
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2 CDs
$20.50
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Renata Tebaldi (Minnie), Mario del Monaco (Dick Johnson), Cornell MacNeil (Jack Rance)
Orchestra e Coro dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Franco Capuana
both Tebaldi and del Monaco were at their finest, and Tozzi as Jake Wallace proved another outstanding asset. The Decca producers, James Walker and Christopher Raeburn, again demonstrated Decca's... — More…
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Carol Neblett (Minnie), Plácido Domingo (Dick Johnson), Sherrill Milnes (Jack Rance)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Zubin Mehta
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Puccini: La fanciulla del West
Plácido Domingo, Carol Neblett
The Royal Opera, Covent Garden, Nello Santi, Piero Faggioni (director)
Domingo is in superb voice...Neblett as the Girl sings freshly with an appealing directness, untroubled by the formidable demands of the role. Carroli makes an aptly sinister Rance — More…
Puccini: La fanciulla del West
Eleanor Steber (Minnie), Gian Giacomo Guelfi (Jack Rance), Mario Del Monaco (Dick Johnson), Piero De Palma (Nick), Vito Susca (Ashby), Enzo Viaro (Sonora), Giorgio Tozzi (Jake Wallace)
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Dmitri Mitropoulos
Thanks above all to the passionate commitment of Mitropoulos, working with a fine team of soloists, this neglected work sounds a true masterpiece. — More…
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What are FLAC and MP3?Puccini: La fanciulla del West
Mara Zampieri (Minnie), Plácido Domingo (Dick Johnson), Juan Pons (Jack Rance)
Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Lorin Maazel
2 CDs
$15.25
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Puccini: La fanciulla del West
Eva-Maria Westbroek (Minnie), Lucio Gallo (Jack Rance), Zoran Todorovich (Dick Johnson), Roman Sadnik (Nick), Diogenes Randes (Ashby), Stephen Gadd (Sonora), Tijl Faveyts (Billy Jackrabbit), Ellen Rabiner (Wowkle), André Morsch (Jake Wallace) & Roger Smeets (José Castro)
Chorus of De Nederlandse...
What we see is an updated parable of the American dream...in the final scene [Minnie] appears, like Jean Harlow, at the top of a glittering staircase to be carried off to a Hollywood happy ending...Does... — More…
79 CDs + 2 DVD Videos
($299.00)$219.00
Due for release on 4th May 2018
Please note: This set weighs around 3kg, so we need to charge extra postage for delivery outside of the UK. Please contact us for further details.