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Giacomo Puccini operas
Manon Lescaut (1893)
La bohème (1896)
Tosca (1900)
Madama Butterfly (1904)
La fanciulla del West (1910)
Il trittico (Il tabarro, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi) (1918)
Turandot (1926)

“La fanciulla del West” by Giacomo Puccini

The Girl of the West, Девушка с Запада

Premiere / date of written: 10 December 1910

La fanciulla del West was commissioned by, and first performed at, the Metropolitan Opera in New York on 10 December 1910 with Met stars Enrico Caruso and Emmy Destinn for whom Puccini created the leading roles of Dick Johnson and Minnie.

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# Language Authors
1 Italian Guelfo Civinini, Carlo Zangarini
2 Russian Людмила Юй

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