Like “Madama Butterfly,” Giacomo Puccini’s opera “La fanciulla del west” was based on a stage play by the American author David Belasco. At its triumphal world premiere in 1910 in New York, Enrico Caruso sang the part of Johnson.
Puccini: Il tabarro (Kerstmatinee 1998)
From the main hall of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam: Riccardo Chailly and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra perfoming Puccini’s opera in one act, ‘Il tabarro’. Joining them is a great cast of high-class singers. Amongst them star tenor José Cura.