La Fille du Far-West

La Fille du Far-West , known in Italian as La Fanciulla del West, is an opera in three acts with a score by Giacomo Puccini and a libretto by Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini . It is derived from David Belasco ’s play entitled The Girl of the Golden West , which Puccini saw one evening on Broadway. The work had its world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in New York on 12 December 1910. It was performed in Rome and London during 1911, and it had its first presentation at the Monte Carlo…