Name: BBC SOAdams: Girls of the Golden West
Start: 2021-01-17T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2021-01-17T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Barbican Centre

Organization

Conductor

John Coolidge Adams

Stage director

Kenneth Richardson

Soprano

Julia Bullock

Dame Shirley

Bass

Davóne Tines

Ned Peters

Tenor

Paul Appleby

Joe Cannon

Hye Jung Lee

Ah Sing

Bass-baritone

Benedict Nelson

Clarence King

Mezzo-soprano

Daniela Mack

Josefa Segovia

Others

BBC Singers

Orchestra

BBC Symphony Orchestra

Barbican Centre

English

BBC SO/Adams: Girls of the Golden West

London

United Kingdom

Barbican Concert Hall

BBC SO/Adams: Girls of the Golden West: Girls of the Golden West Adams

Public

Girls of the Golden West

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John Adams conducts the UK premiere of his acclaimed new opera on the downtrodden victims and inspiring dreamers of the Californian gold rush.

John Adams’s 2017 opera on racial tension, sexual abuse and the sheer desperation of the nineteenth-century Californian gold rush has been called ‘a correction of American history’ by the LA Times and ‘an opera about the present’ by the New York Times.

Under the baton of the composer himself, including members of the original cast and using original source material and poetry by Mark Twain, the composer gives voices to the era’s downtrodden victims and inspiring dreamers.

BBC SO/Adams: Girls of the Golden West by Adams, From (2021/2021), Directed by Kenneth Richardson,, Conductor John Coolidge Adams, Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom

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Ensemble

Programme, About & Synopsis

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