Los Angeles Philharmonic, John Adams & Los Angeles Master Chorale — John Adams: Girls of the Golden West

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John Adams’ opera <i>Girls of the Golden West</i> (2017) goes back in time to the California Gold Rush (1848-55) for its subject matter. Adams paints a raw, deromanticised picture of the period. Drunkenness, prostitution, murder, racism, misogyny and economic exploitation all feature in the action, in a libretto by Peter Sellars which draws on contemporary songs and letters, with dashes of Shakespeare and Mark Twain thrown in. Adams’ music has a sharp, restless energy entirely befitting the Gold Rush era. The lusty miners’ choruses are a highlight, dark energies roiling beneath their surface bonhomie and bluster. Tenor Paul Appleby’s account of Joe Cannon’s Act I song is similarly edged with angst, and soprano Hye Jung Lee delivers a searing account of the troubled prostitute Ah Sing’s aria. John Adams himself leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a riveting performance, which raises as many questions about the America of today as it does about its past.

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Los Angeles Philharmonic, John Adams & Los Angeles Master Chorale

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  1. Girls of the Golden West, Act I: Scene 1. It was a driving, vigorous, restless population 8:56
  2. Girls of the Golden West, Act I: Scene 1. Wagon Ride - Ned Peters was a hustler 5:06
  3. Girls of the Golden West, Act I: Scene 2. My name is Joe 11:01
  4. Girls of the Golden West, Act I: Scene 2. Now he consoles himself 2:36
  5. Girls of the Golden West, Act I: Scene 3. A gambler’s life I do admire 10:49
  6. Girls of the Golden West, Act I: Scene 3. Josefa, you remember 4:14
  7. Girls of the Golden West, Act I: Scene 4. It's bone, it’s backbone 12:20
  8. Girls of the Golden West, Act I: Scene 4. Comin' up from Red Dog 3:29
  9. Girls of the Golden West, Act II: Scene 1. The Raven 5:08
  10. Girls of the Golden West, Act II: Scene 2. The attack on the Mexicans 11:04
  11. Girls of the Golden West, Act II: Scene 3. It seems like midnight 7:59
  12. Girls of the Golden West, Act II: Scene 3. What is this celebration to me? 6:57
  13. Girls of the Golden West, Act II: Scene 4. This very nearly was the cause 2:45
  14. Girls of the Golden West, Act II: Scene 4. Ven esta noche 3:02
  15. Girls of the Golden West, Act II: Scene 4. Blessed and praised 0:59
  16. Girls of the Golden West, Act II: Scene 4. I'm going far away from my creditors 8:54
  17. Girls of the Golden West, Act II: Scene 5. The Downieville mob 5:40
  18. Girls of the Golden West, Act II: Scene 5. Tú me quieres alba 6:11
  19. Girls of the Golden West, Act II: Scene 5. It's four long years (Lousy Miner) 4:37
  20. Girls of the Golden West, Act II: Epilogue. Sometimes I lounge forlornly to the window 4:51