LIVE TRANSMISSION
Set during the California Gold Rush, Minnie, the gun-slinging tavern
owner with a heart of gold, finds love in the arms of a dashing outlaw.
Celebrated British director Richard Jones brings a new production of
Puccini’s exhilarating drama of the Wild West to the Met, which marks
the company’s first new staging of La Fanciulla del West in more than
30 years. Soprano Vida Mikneviciute makes an important Met debut
as Minnie, starring alongside tenor SeokJong Baek as Dick Johnson.
CAST Vida Mikneviciute, SeokJong Baek, Christopher Maltman
CONDUCTOR Keri-Lynn Wilson
DIRECTOR Richard Jones
ESTIMATED RUNTIME 3 hours and 15 minutes, with one intermission
