Opera Club
Everyone is invited to watch Puccini’s delightful operatic love story “Fanciulla del West” on Tuesday, Sept. 6, at 1:30 p.m., in Clubhouse 3, Room 2. Based on Belasco’s play The Girl of the Golden West, it sets to music life in a gold mining town of California in 1849. Club member Kirk Davis will explain how this tale, regarded by the composer as his best opera, elicited 55 curtain calls from the audience at its world opening in 1907. This three-act opera is about Minnie, the owner of a bar in a Californian mining camp and the bandit-turned-lover Ramirezz hunted by the cynical sheriff Jack Rance, who wants Minnie for himself. Complete with whiskey-drinking cowboys, La Fanciulla del West is Puccini’s most colorful, passionate and adventurous play.
The production is in Italian with English subtitles. People are cautioned to wear masks while indoors for safety. No dues or fees will be collected. For more information, contact club President Beverly Emus at (562) 296-5586 or email Beverly90740@gmail.com. —Sylvan Von Burg
