The set looks more like Edmonton oil fields than it does like the California gold rush. I think it requires just this kind of no holds barred, wildly passionate singing and acting to make its effect. If the singers can sing this big, the opera soars with them. She and Jonas Kaufmann sing the shit out of it. How could you not love them? Nina Stemme's Minnie is a girl to love, a wild and passionate one who rolls around on the floor in the grip of first love. I'll just say that from an American perspective it isn't as shocking as it is to Europeans. They are in the mountains above Placerville. Here I am in Sacramento watching a film from the Wiener Staatsoper, writing about a man who claims to be from Sacramento, a man who inherited a band of robbers when his father died. It is perhaps the most American of operas. And yes, I have read the Winnetou books, Germany's answer to Zane Grey. It was in German, sort of the Winnetou of opera. For me it has a special place because it was one of the works that we presented in Ulm while I was there. Marco Arturo Marelli | Direction and lightingįor Puccini La Fanciulla del West was his best opera.
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