<I>Ch’ella mi creda libero e lontano</I> is the last aria that tenor-role Dick Johnson (the bandit Ramerrez) sings before his death sentence is carried out. Puccini’s opera <I>La Fanciulla del West</I> is set in America’s Wild West. The impressionistic-inspired opera separates this opera from most of Puccini’s other works. Johan de Meij’s arrangement uses the solo trombone in the role of the bandit Ramerrez.