Set during the California Gold Rush, Minnie, the gun-slinging tavern owner with a heart of gold, finds love in the arms of a dashing outlaw.

Celebrated British director Richard Jones brings a new production of Puccini’s exhilarating drama of the Wild West to the Met, which marks the company’s first new staging of La Fanciulla del West in more than 30 years. Soprano Vida Miknevičiūtė makes an important Met debut as Minnie, starring alongside tenor SeokJong Baek as Dick Johnson.

CAST: Vida Miknevičiūtė, SeokJong Baek, Christopher Maltman

CONDUCTOR: Keri-Lynn Wilson

DIRECTOR: Richard Jones

ESTIMATED RUNTIME: 3 hours and 15 minutes, with one intermission

SUNG IN: Italian

MET TITLES IN: English, German, Spanish, Italian

Doors: 9:30 AM

Showtime: 10:00 AM

Tickets $20; Students $15. Concessions and cash bar available. To-go menus from nearby restaurants available or bring your own sack dinner and stretch your legs by the river during intermissions. Tickets available on Humanitix.

Contact the host of THE METROPOLITAN OPERA PRESENTS LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST: Doors at 9:30AM