![]() ![]() If there is any resemblance to present-day problems, it is not a coincidence. Adams and Sellars open a window upon the dark side of the California Gold Rush of the 1850s - the greed, the racism, the violence, the despoiling of the Gold Country in the Sierra Nevada. What Girls of the Golden West attempts to do is offer an alternative to Puccini’s spaghetti Western by setting the historical record straight. ![]() Is it a rewrite of the famous Puccini opera of virtually the identical name? Is it a parody of same? Or does it have nothing to do with it? The answers are: None of the above. Paul Appleby as Joe Cannon and J’Nai Bridges as Josefa Segovia. The provocative title of their newest collaboration, Girls of the Golden West, certainly did that, raising eyebrows and questions in opera circles well before its world premiere at San Francisco Opera’s appropriately gilded War Memorial Opera House on Nov. SAN FRANCISCO - If there is one thing that John Adams and his constant co-conspirator Peter Sellars are experts at, it is getting our attention. Hye Jung Lee as Ah Sing in John Adams and Peter Sellars’ ‘Girls of the Golden West’ at San Francisco Opera.
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