Back in black
He returned. He sang. He didn’t get hanged.
Eva-Maria Westbroek
31 pieces since 2009 — in 10 roles, at 7 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.
31
pieces
10
roles
7
companies
18
years
By role
5 pieces as Minnie — stats above show all coverage for Eva-Maria Westbroek.
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American beauty
It’s surprising to read that, as of this writing, La fanciulla del west has only had 105 performances at the Metropolitan Opera.
Minnie happy returns
Puccini’s Girl closes out the 20th century and gallops into the 21st.
Panning for gold
Giacomo Puccini’s horse-opera version of “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” La Fanciulla del West, based on David Belasco’s play, The Girl of the Golden West, enjoyed the status of a curate’s egg for quite a while.
The boys in the back room
“The American Way of Life, lightly satirized, lies at the heart of our production: it is an adventure that takes place somewhere between Wall Street and Hollywood.” Nikolaus Lehnhoff, as can be surmised from these liner notes, makes full use of stereotypically “American” imagery throughout his production of Puccini’s La fanciulla del West: Wall Street […]