Julius: The music is more nostalgic than what I expected it almost feels like it’s out of Adams’s mid-90s style, rather than his more recent language in things like Scheherazade.2. I really liked the bar scene, and the moving panorama-that was actually a popular technology of the 19th century. I thought they were minimal but very effective a few pieces of staging did a lot of work. Katherine (a humanities graduate student): I liked the sets. “Let’s carry the bed onto the stage, leave it there for about 45 seconds, and then have two new people walk on and carry it off.” Julius (a composer): SF Opera overdoes their staging to an ungodly amount. She is the opera’s central character along with her are Ned Peters, a fugitive slave and miners, barkeeps, and prostitutes of different races and ethnicities.I attended the second performance at San Francisco Opera, and spoke to a handful of audience members during and after the show. With Adams, director Peter Sellars constructed much of the libretto from the letters of Louise Clappe, an educated woman who wrote under the pen name Dame Shirley while living in San Francisco and the Feather River mining communities. The new John Adams opera “ Girls of the Golden West” depicts the Gold Rush, an iconic moment in California history when people of different backgrounds suddenly came to live in the same place.
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