4 / 4 A scene from Puccini's "La Fanciulla del West." Photo: Ken Howard / Santa Fe Opera
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 Miknevičiūtė makes an important Met debut as Minnie, starring alongside tenor SeokJong Baek as Dick Johnson.
CAST: Vida Miknevičiūtė, SeokJong Baek, Christopher Maltman
CONDUCTOR: Keri-Lynn Wilson
DIRECTOR: Richard Jones
ESTIMATED RUNTIME: 3 hours and 15 minutes, with one intermission
Refreshments will be available for purchase at the Coffee Bar, including fresh sandwiches, and are permitted in the theater.
Sponsors
The Met Opera simulcasts at Guild Hall are made possible in part through the generosity of:
Grand Tier: Louise and Howie Phanstiel
Dress Circle: Norma Giorgetti in memory of Mary-Anne Szabaga, Patti Kenner in memory of Judith and Gus Leiber, Ngaere Macray, Irene Silverman, and Norbert Weissberg.
Balcony Circle: Gabrielle Bamberger, Susan Blair, Arlene Bujese in memory of Marcel Bally, Jeannette and H. Peter Kriendler Charitable Trust, Joan Osborne, and Veronica Stephens.
We thank Ann and Gloria Cestone, in memoriam, for their love of opera.
Performing Arts programs are supported by 2026 season sponsors Galia Meiri-Stawski and Axel Stawski, with additional lead support from Henry and Peggy Schleiff, The Melville Straus Family Endowment, Monica and Peter Tessler, and Vital Projects Fund.
Guild Hall’s Performing Arts programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Music Programming is supported in part by The Ellen and James S. Marcus Endowment for Musical Programming, and the Anne Wolf Concert Fund.
Dance programming is supported by Principal Sponsors SHS Foundation and the Straus Family Foundation, with additional support provided by Bonita and Kevin Stewart.
Additional support provided by Friends of the Theater: Natascia Ayers and Jim Ciquera, Bonnie and Joel Bergstein, Gene Bernstein and Kathy Walsh, Amy Cooney and Marty Feinman, John and Joan D’Addario, Suzanne and John Golden, Hilarie and Mitchell Morgan, Steve and Susan Pesner and Peace, in memory of Michéle Pesner, whose entire life was devoted to all aspects of culture, The Schaffner Family Foundation, Lisa Schultz and Ezriel Kornel, Stacey and Oliver Stanton, Susi and Peter Wunsch, and Mrs. George Yates.
