FFR/Princeton BTGALA Presents...

Puccini's The Girl of the Golden West

A Special Event to Raise Money for the new Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Lesbian and Gay Studies!

New York, NY

WHAT:	Dinner at the Promenade Café followed by The New York City Opera's performance of The Girl of the Golden West, by Giacomo Puccini
WHEN:	Saturday evening, April 16, 2005 Dinner begins at 6:00 PM The opera begins at 8:00 PM and ends at approximatly 10:45 PM.
WHERE:	The Promenade Café New York City Opera both in the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center, New York For directions, go to http://www.nycopera.com/visitor/directions.aspx
COST:	$250 per person, $200 to sponsor a Princeton Student, includes dinner and a ticket to the Opera
RSVP:	Required Please either send us a check or use the Paypal button below. If you wish to pay by check, please make your check payable to Fund for Reunion, Inc. and mail it to: David Beaty 452 Central Ave. Orange, New Jersey 07050-2502 Click here for a form to fill out and mail with your check.

La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West) is Puccini at his most surprising. True, it is A RICHLY DRAMATIC LOVE STORY, but a sensual one at that, set against the outlaw days of the California Gold Rush.

Orchestrally, La Fanciulla del West has all of the brilliant characteristics of a late Puccini opera. Breathtaking passages for woodwinds, harps, and percussion punctuate the score in complex, brilliant style, while sumptuous arias flow seamlessly throughout. It is a RARE MASTERPIECE that explores the full range of instrumental and vocal color, and Puccini himself considered it his finest work. As Minnie, "STEPHANIE FRIEDE renders the forceful emotions credible with her amazingly elastic, yet in all nuances powerful voice." - Die Welt

In a Gold Rush mining camp, Minnie - the feisty schoolmarm, saloon keeper, and best friend to the young miners - falls in love with a Mexican bandit on the run, complicating her position in their tight-knit community. The territory's corrupt sheriff is eager to hang the fugitive and also to win Minnie as his wife, forcing her to stake her one chance at happiness, and her lover's life, on a winner-takes-all gamble.

Other Information:
Sung in Italian with English supertitles
2 hours, 45 minutes including 2 intermissions
Co-production with Glimmerglass Opera.

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