Lars Fosser

Opera Hedeland

With Puccini's "The Girl from the West", the gold digging environment moves from the rough life around the saloon in the western USA into the grand amphitheater of the gravel pit in Opera Hedeland in the summer of 2024.

In the Wild West, the strong woman Minnie resides in her gentle regime. She is a woman with a bone in her nose and a heart for the true values ​​of life when she has to act in a male-dominated world.

True love forms the focal point of the story, as the gifted Minnie must fight for love after falling in love with a wanted bandit, so that they can face a common future.

Minnie is thus a strong female figure and she is the rallying point for the men in Puccini's opera, which is unusual for his plays, where the women have otherwise been through great suffering.

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