hS.S.M.3T.Bar. Male 4tet, Men's Chorus, dancer,
3(=picc).3(=corA).3(=Ebcl, bcl).3(=dbn)-4.3.3.1-perc(2)-pft-accordion-gtr-strings(12.9.7.7.5)
Sound Design as detailed by Mark Grey
Abbreviations (PDF)
Opera
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War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, CA
Peter Sellars, director/librettist / San Francisco Opera / Grant Gershon
“There should be no doubt that Girls of the Golden West is the most powerful opera of the moment.”
Los Angeles Times
“Girls is an outright rejection of the romantic West of Puccini, of the hubris of Manifest Destiny, of all the rosy myths you’ve heard about the Golden State. It is revisionist – or, rather, corrective – American history, a tale of men turning feral as they swarmed California like an invasive species. In many ways, it is also an opera about the present.”
New York Times