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We're staying at Beijing's National Centre for the Performing Arts this week for Puccini's "Wild West" opera, "La Fanciulla del West." After the opera, we'll fill the afternoon with more music inspired by "the west" from composers like Meredith Willson and Antonin Dvorak.
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We've been in space for the past two weeks, so we're coming down to earth with Giacomo Puccini's "wild west" opera "The Girl of the Golden West." Our Minnie on this 1958 recording is the wonderful Renata Tebaldi, her love, the bandit Ramirez, is Mario Del Monaco, and the scheming sheriff who also loves Minnie is Cornell MacNeil.
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We’ll turn to a classic recording of a much loved opera on this week’s Sunday Opera (3/17 3:00 p.m.) and a 1958 recording of Giacomo Puccini’s “La…