Everyone a bandit
Lydia Steier directs La Fanciulla del West in Berlin (*****+)
Author : Jos Hermans
The New York premiere of "La Fanciulla del West" (1910) was a society event and a great success. Puccini claimed that he and the performers had fifty-five curtain calls; thirty of those were for the composer. La Fanciulla emerged as a California gold mine and re…
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