| 词条 | Girls of the Golden West (opera) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| name = Girls of the Golden West | genre = Opera | composer = John Adams | image = | caption = | librettist = Peter Sellars | language = English | based_on = {{Based on|Letters by|Louise Clappe}} | premiere_date = November 21, 2017 | premiere_location = San Francisco Opera }}Girls of the Golden West is an opera in two acts with music by John Adams and a libretto by Peter Sellars. The San Francisco Opera commissioned the work jointly with Dallas Opera, the Dutch National Opera (De Nationale Opera) and Teatro La Fenice in Venice. The opera was premiered in San Francisco on November 21, 2017.[1] Composition historyThe 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. Clappe published the letters under the pen name Dame Shirley.[2][3] The libretto is also sourced from other literature of the period, including newspaper articles and the writings of Mark Twain. 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. 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."[4] Sellars's previous collaborations with Adams have included premiere productions of Nixon in China, The Death of Klinghoffer and Doctor Atomic (for which Sellars also wrote the libretto).[5] Roles
References1. ^1 {{Cite web|url=https://sfopera.com/1718season/201718-season/goldenwest/|publisher=San Francisco Opera|title=Girls of the Golden West – production details|access-date=October 26, 2018}} 2. ^{{Cite book|title = The Shirley Letters|last = Shirley|first = Dame|publisher = Peregine Press|year = 1970|isbn = |location = |pages = }} 3. ^{{Cite journal|title=Out of the Shadows: Louise Clappe's Life and Early California Writings|last=Smith-Barazini|first=Marlene|date=Winter 1999–2000|journal=California History|url=http://ch.ucpress.edu/content/78/4/238}} 4. ^{{Cite press release|url=https://www.boosey.com/cr/news/John-Adams-s-New-Opera-Girls-of-the-Golden-West-Announced/100859||title=John Adams's New Opera Girls of the Golden West Announced|publisher=Boosey & Hawkes|date=June 2016|access-date=October 26, 2018}} 5. ^Michael Cooper, [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/15/arts/music/john-adams-and-peter-sellars-again-joining-forces-for-new-opera.html?_r=0 "John Adams and Peter Sellars Again Joining Forces for New Opera"], The New York Times, 14 June 2016, accessed 15 June 2016 External links
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