Adams: Girls of the Golden West (Complete Opera)
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JOHN ADAMS
Adams: Girls of the Golden West (Complete Opera)
Julia Bullock, Ryan McKinny, Davone Tines, Hye Jung Lee, Daniela Mack / Los Angeles Master Chorale, Los Angeles Philharmonic, John Adams
[ Nonesuch Records / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Friday 19 July 2024
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Girls of the Golden West is John Adams' eighth music theatre work to be released by Nonesuch Records. Adams' stage works are among the most performed contemporary operas of our time and include Nixon in China, The Death of Klinghoffer, El Niño, and Doctor Atomic. You can pre-order the album here.
Girls of the Golden West is a California opera, telling the story of the Gold Rush not through familiar time-worn myth, but in the words and deeds of real people: in the words of Mark Twain, "the strangest population, the finest population … who ever trooped down the startled solitudes of an unpeopled land."
Longtime Adams collaborator Peter Sellars drew from original sources from the Gold Rush era: letters, journals, newspaper articles, and familiar song lyrics to create the libretto.
The composer leads the LA Phil in this recording made in Disney Hall. The aria "Wagon Ride," which features Davóne Tines and Julia Bullock (both also Nonesuch artists), is available today.
"The influence of Ives can be heard in the shifting layers; once a funeral march, now a Fourth of July celebration. As Dame Shirley, Julia Bullocks is on scintillating form, particularly as she acts out the part of Lady MacBeth in Act II.."
- BBC Music Magazine, Opera Choice July 2024
"The Los Angeles Philharmonic show their deep familiarity with the composer's language, as do the Los Angeles Master Chorale, expertly marshalled by Grant Gershon" Gramophone Editor's Choice June 2024
International Opera Awards 2024
Shortlisted - Complete Recording
