In the unlikely setting of the San Francisco Opera House, we hear the powerful voices of the women and people of color who both endured and defied bigotry and injustice. The Girl of the Golden West may refer to. Sharp and Evelyn Sharp Foundation with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. In Girls of the Golden West, Adams and Sellars debunk the dominant narrative of the history of the Golden State. The fact that Sellars manages to elevate the dramatic side, while allowing its political issues to remain as undercurrents, clearly expressed, but subordinate, is a testament to his. Lead funding for Works & Process is provided by The Florence Gould Foundation, The Christian Humann Foundation, Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Caroline M. Girls of the Golden West is a delicately balanced opera, which with the wrong direction could easily end up focusing on identity, rather than the drama. $40, $35 Guggenheim Members and Friends of Works & Processīox Office (212) 423-3575 or San Francisco Opera was a co-commissioner of The Death of Klinghoffer and presented the work in November 1992 commissioned Doctor Atomic for premiere in 2005 presented Nixon in China in June 2012 and commissioned Girls of the Golden West to be presented in November 2017. This discussion will also include set designer David Gropman along with J'Nai Bridges and Hye Jung Lee, accompanied by pianist John Churchwell. He conducted the world premiere of John Adams opera 'Girls of the Golden West' and Adams opera/theatre piece, I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky, directed by Peter Sellars. California and opera go back a long way together practically to the founding of the one, though not the other. With a libretto drawn from original sources by director Peter Sellars, Girls of the Golden West explores the dramatic and often brutal stories of pioneers on California’s Gold Rush frontier during the early 1850s. Cast members perform in the opening act of the San Francisco Opera’s production of Puccini’s The Girl of the Golden West in San Francisco in 2010. Works & Process at the Guggenheim presents San Francisco Opera: Girls of the Golden Weston Thursday and Friday, September 21 at 7:30pm.Ĭomposer John Adams and librettist/director Peter Sellars discusstheir newest collaboration with San Francisco Opera GeneralDirector Matthew Shilvock.