John Adams: Girls of the Golden West, by John Adams, Los Angeles Philharmonic

John Adams: Girls of the Golden West

by John Adams, Los Angeles Philharmonic

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1.	Girls of the Golden West, Act I Scene 1: It was a driving, vigorous, restless population 08:56	info	buy track
2.	Girls of the Golden West, Act I Scene 1: Wagon Ride - Ned Peters was a hustler 05:06	info	buy track
3.	Girls of the Golden West, Act I Scene 2: My name is Joe 11:01	info	buy track
4.	Girls of the Golden West, Act I Scene 2: Now he consoles himself 02:36	info	buy track
5.	Girls of the Golden West, Act I Scene 3: A gambler’s life I do admire 10:49	info	buy track
6.	Girls of the Golden West, Act I Scene 3: Josefa, you remember 04:14	info	buy track
7.	Girls of the Golden West, Act I Scene 4: It's bone, it’s backbone 12:20	info	buy track
8.	Girls of the Golden West, Act I Scene 4: Comin' up from Red Dog 03:29	info	buy track
9.	Girls of the Golden West, Act II Scene 1: The Raven 05:08	info	buy track
10.	Girls of the Golden West, Act II Scene 2: The attack on the Mexicans 11:04	info	buy track
11.	Girls of the Golden West, Act II Scene 3: It seems like midnight 07:59	info	buy track
12.	Girls of the Golden West, Act II Scene 3: What is this celebration to me? 06:57	info	buy track
13.	Girls of the Golden West, Act II Scene 4: This very nearly was the cause 02:45	info	buy track
14.	Girls of the Golden West, Act II Scene 4: Ven esta noche 03:02	info	buy track
15.	Girls of the Golden West, Act II Scene 4: Blessed and praised 00:59	info	buy track
16.	Girls of the Golden West, Act II Scene 4: I'm going far away from my creditors 08:54	info	buy track
17.	Girls of the Golden West, Act II Scene 5: The Downieville mob 05:40	info	buy track
18.	Girls of the Golden West, Act II Scene 5: Tú me quieres alba 06:11	info	buy track
19.	Girls of the Golden West, Act II Scene 5: It's four long years (Lousy Miner) 04:37	info	buy track
20.	Girls of the Golden West, Act II Epilogue: Sometimes I lounge forlornly to the window 04:51	info	buy track

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released April 26, 2024

Nonesuch releases the first recording of John Adams’ 2017 opera, Girls of the Golden West, on April 26, 2024. Longtime Adams collaborator Peter Sellars created the opera’s libretto, drawing from original sources, and also directs this performance. The composer leads the LA Phil in this live recording from Disney Hall. Girls of the Golden West also features the Los Angeles Master Chorale, conducted by Grant Gershon, and a cast led by Julia Bullock, Davóne Tines, Paul Appleby, Hye Jung Lee, Elliot Madore, Daniela Mack, and Ryan McKinny.

Girls of the Golden West brings true stories of the California Gold Rush to life. The opera rejects the whitewashed romantic view of California in the early days of the Gold Rush and highlights the heroism, passion, racial conflicts, love, cruelty, and truth during one of the most significant events in American history. Sellars used memoirs and historical texts to inform the opera that has been called by the Los Angeles Times “the most powerful opera of the moment.” The work had its world premiere in 2017 at the San Francisco Opera and has since also been presented by the Dutch National Opera.

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