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FULL LAND OF GOLD – Girls of the Wild West (Adams) Documentary San Francisco 2017
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: LAND OF GOLD - Girls of the Wild West (Adams
- Composer: Adams John
- Libretto: Peter Sellars
- Venue & Opera Company: War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco Opera, California
- Recorded: 2017 & 2021
- Type: Other
- Singers: Julia Bullock, J’Nai Bridges, Davóne Tines, Paul Appleby,
- Conductor: Grant Gershon
- Orchestra: San Francisco Opera Orchestra
- Chorus: San Francisco Opera Chorus
- Choreographer: John Heginbotham
- Stage Director: Peter Sellars
- Stage Designer: David Gropman
- Costume Designer: Rita Ryack;
- Lighting Designer: James F. Ingalls
Information about the Recording
- Published by: PBS, Bread and Butter Films
- TV Director: Jon Else
- Date Published: 2024
- Format: Broadcast
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Explore Peter Sellars’ San Francisco Opera production of John Adams’ “Girls of the Golden West” set during Gold Rush. Go behind the scenes with cast members Julia Bullock, J’Nai Bridges and others as they bring the show to life on stage.
Exploring the making of San Francisco Opera’s “Girls of the Golden West,” telling the turbulent story of the California Gold Rush. With the opera’s title referencing Puccini’s 1910 romantic opera “The Girl of the Golden West,” Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Adams and famed director Peter Sellars’ opera tells a harsher and more complex story through the letters of writer Louise Clappe who lived in a miners’ settlement in 1850.
Spotlighting the behind-the-scenes action during the opera’s rehearsal process, the documentary highlights the creative process as actors and creative team grapple with the historical significance of the material and bringing it to the stage. Two stories are told: One on stage in the present day, and one in the past through the opera. Soprano Julia Bullock stars in the opera as Louise Clappe with mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges as Josefa Segovia, two women among the many men caught up in the quest for wealth in the lawless mountains.
Quoted from PBS