Summary: The 2018-2019 Met Opera season premiere of La Fanciulla del West is Thursday, Oct. 4, during the second week of Puccini, Saint Saëns and Verdi operas.
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| The 2018-2019 Met Opera season premiere of Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West happens Thursday, Oct. 4: Metropolitan Opera @MetOpera via Facebook Feb. 19, 2018 |
The 2018-2019 Met Opera season premiere of La Fanciulla del West is Thursday, Oct. 4, during the season’s second week of
performances of Puccini, Saint Saëns and Verdi operas.
October’s first week is the 2018-2019 season’s second week. The schedule for Monday, Oct. 1, through Saturday, Oct. 6, 2018, frames La Fanciulla del West’s season premiere with two performances each of Giacomo Puccini’s La Bohème, Saint Saëns’s Samson et Dalila and Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida.
The 2018-2019 Met Opera season premiere of La Fanciulla del West by Italian opera composer Giacomo Puccini (Dec. 22,
1858-Nov. 29, 1924) takes place Thursday, Oct. 4, at 7:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. The season premiere’s launch is the only performance of La Fanciulla del West during the 2018-2019 Met Opera season’s second week.
The 2018-2019 Met Opera season premiere of Puccini’s California Gold Rush-themed opera revives Giancarlo del Monaco’s production. The Italian stage director’s staging debuted Oct. 10, 1991, in the Metropolitan Opera’s 76th performance of La Fanciulla del West.
The debut of del Monaco’s production also marked Metropolitan Opera debuts for del Monaco and the production’s costume and set designer, Australian production designer Michael Scott-Mitchell. The production’s lighting director is Gil Wechsler. Gregory Keller is the revival stage director for the 2018-2019 Met Opera season’s production of La Fanciulla del West.
The 2018-2019 Met Opera season’s staging of La Fanciulla del West marks the third revival of Giancarlo del Monaco’s production. The first revival was launched during the 1992-1993 season. The second revival occurred during the 2010-2011 season.
All of the 2018-2019 Met Opera season’s performances of La Fanciulla del West take place in October. In addition to the
season premiere, the Metropolitan Opera offers six performances of La Fanciulla del West. October’s other performances are scheduled for Monday, Oct. 8, at 7:30 p.m.; Friday, Oct. 12, at 7:30 p.m.; Wednesday, Oct. 17, at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, Oct. 20, at 8 p.m.; Tuesday, Oct. 23, at 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, Oct. 27, at 1 p.m.
La Fanciulla del West appears as the fourth of the 2018-2019 Met Opera season’s 24 Saturday matinee radio broadcasts. The Metropolitan Opera’s 2018-2019 Saturday matinee radio broadcast schedule opens Saturday, Dec. 1, 2018, with Mefistofele by Italian composer and librettist Arrigo Boito (Feb. 24, 1842-June 10, 1918). The 2018-2019 Saturday matinee radio broadcast schedule closes Saturday, May 4, 2019, with Les Pêcheurs de Perles by French Romantic Era composer Georges Bizet (Oct. 25, 1838-June 3, 1875).
The 2018-2019 Met Opera season’s second week begins with the season’s third performance of Samson et Dalila by French
Romantic Era composer Camille Saint-Saëns (Oct. 9, 1835-Dec. 16, 1921). The performance Monday, Oct. 1, starts at 7:30 p.m. The week’s second staging of Samson et Dalila takes place Friday, Oct. 5, at 8 p.m.
The 2018-2019 Met Opera season’s third performance of Aida by Italian opera composer Giuseppe Verdi (Oct. 10, 1813-Jan. 27, 1901) takes place Tuesday, Oct. 2, at 7:30 p.m. The season’s second week also includes another performance of Aida Saturday, Oct. 6, at 1 p.m. Saturday's performance is also available via the Metropolitan Opera's Live in HD series.
The 2018-2019 Met Opera season’s second week also continues performances of La Bohème by Italian opera composer Giacomo
Puccini (Dec. 22, 1858-Nov. 29, 1924). The second week’s performances of La Bohème are scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 3, at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, Oct. 6, at 8:30 p.m.
The takeaways for the 2018-2019 Met Opera season premiere of La Fanciulla del West Thursday, Oct. 4, are that the season’s staging of Puccini’s California Gold Rush-themed opera represents the third revival of Italian stage director Giancarlo del Monaco’s production at the Metropolitan Opera and that the season’s second week continues performances of Saint-Saëns’s Samson et Dalila, Puccini’s La Bohème and Verdi’s Aida.
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| The Metropolitan Opera’s second revival of Italian stage director Giancarlo del Monaco’s production of Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West occurred during the 2010-2011 season, with American dramatic soprano Deborah Voigt in the title role: The Metropolitan Opera @MetOpera via Facebook Dec. 10, 2010 |
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The 2018-2019 Met Opera season premiere of Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West happens Thursday, Oct. 4: Metropolitan Opera
@MetOpera via Facebook Feb. 19, 2018, @ https://www.facebook.com/MetOpera/photos/a.134969600532.229232.20807115532/10160146382080533/
The Metropolitan Opera’s second revival of Italian stage director Giancarlo del Monaco’s production of Puccini’s La
Fanciulla del West occurred during the 2010-2011 season, with American dramatic soprano Deborah Voigt in the title role: The Metropolitan Opera @MetOpera via Facebook Dec. 10, 2010, @ https://www.facebook.com/MetOpera/posts/180251985334994
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For further information:
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Metropolitan Opera @MetOpera. “Live in HD October 27. Soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek sings Puccini’s gun-slinging heroine in this romantic epic of the Wild West, with the heralded return of tenor Jonas Kaufmann in the role of the outlaw she loves . . . .” Facebook. Feb. 19, 2018.
Available @ https://www.facebook.com/MetOpera/photos/a.134969600532.229232.20807115532/10160146382080533/
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Metropolitan Opera @MetOpera. “New on iTunes: Puccini’s romantic epic of the Wild West, La Fanciulla del West, springs to life in Giancarlo del Monaco’s dramatic production. . . .” Facebook. April 12, 2018.
Available @ https://www.facebook.com/MetOpera/photos/a.134969600532.229232.20807115532/10160410490980533/
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Available @ https://www.facebook.com/MetOpera/posts/180251985334994
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