Throughout the Works and Process presentation at the Guggenheim on Sept. Girls of the Golden West is centered around the lives of the hardy women of Rich Bar (a mining camp in the Sierra mountains) and Downieville, California in the early 1850s. According to Sellars, "These true stories of the Forty-Niners are overwhelming in their heroism, passion and cruelty, telling tales of racial conflicts, colorful and humorous exploits, political strife and struggles to build anew a life and to decide what it would mean to be American." The 4 Fascinating Women of Girls of the Golden West. Adams wrote, "To be able to set to music the authentic voices of these people, whether from their letters or their songs or from newspaper accounts from their time, is a great privilege for me." Sellars, who also directed the opera, conceived the libretto while doing research for a production of Giacomo Puccini's 1910 opera La fanciulla del West (based on David Belasco's 1905 play The Girl of the Golden West), which also deals with the gold rush period.
The libretto is also sourced from other literature of the period, including newspaper articles and the writings of Mark Twain. by Clive Paget on 23 November, 2017 Who’d have thought an opera about the Californian Gold Rush could feel quite so contemporary Even its composer, John Adams, admitted he didn’t see that coming when he started work on his latest magnum opus during the early days of Donald Trump’s tilt at the White House.
Clappe published the letters under the pen name Dame Shirley. Classic Arts News First Look at the World Premiere of John Adams and Peter Sellars’ Opera Girls of the Golden West. The opera is inspired by the 1851/1852 letters of Louise Clappe, who lived for a year and a half in the mining settlement of Rich Bar (now Diamondville, California) during the California Gold Rush. The opera was premiered in San Francisco on November 21, 2017. The San Francisco Opera commissioned the work jointly with Dallas Opera, the Dutch National Opera (De Nationale Opera) and Teatro La Fenice in Venice. San Francisco Opera: Girls of the Golden West tickets in San Francisco, CA at War Memorial Opera House on Saturday December 2, 2017. Girls of the Golden West is an opera in two acts with music by John Adams and a libretto by Peter Sellars. Girls of the golden West is Marydee Reynolds and Amalea Tshilds, recreating the music of Marydee's greta aunt Millie, who along with her sister Dolly became one of the first successful female.
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