Live in HD screening of The Metropolitan Opera's new production of Puccini's 'La Fanciulla del West', directed by Richard Jones.
The Metropolitan Opera brings La Fanciulla del West to Gloucester Guildhall on Tuesday 26 January 2027, as part of their Live in HD series. It's a live broadcast from the Met stage in New York, streamed straight to the screen here in Gloucester, so you're seeing the performance exactly as it happens on the other side of the Atlantic.
La Fanciulla della West is Puccini's drama of the Wild West, and this particular staging is the Met's first new production of the work in more than 30 years. It's sung in Italian with English subtitles, and the performance runs 195 minutes with one interval. The cast features Sondra Radvanovsky as Minnie, SeokJong Baek as Dick Johnson, and Christopher Maltman as Jack Rance, with British director Richard Jones signing the new staging and Keri-Lynn Wilson conducting.
The Guildhall itself is the county's premier arts venue, built in 1890 on the site of Sir Thomas Rich's Blue Coat School and opened in 1892. A major refurbishment between 1985 and 1988 earned it the nickname 'The County's Liveliest Venue', and it's hosted the likes of Radiohead, Muse, Primal Scream and Lily Allen over the years. It's a good spot for a night like this, and the broadcast brings a world-class opera house right into the city centre.
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Tickets start from £13.50, and the whole thing runs just over three hours with the interval, so it's a proper evening's outing. You'll find it at Gloucester Guildhall, 23 Eastgate Street, GL1 1NS.
