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The Girl of the Golden West
THE ORIGINAL SPAGHETTI WESTERN? The Girl of the Golden West has all the essentials: a gun-toting heroine, Mexican bandits and a posse of cowboys and Indians. Add music by the composer of Madama Butterfly and you have a romantic opera set in the Sierra Madre Mountains.
In the male world of the Californian Gold Rush a single woman comes in for plenty of attention. Everyone is sweet on Minnie, and the Sheriff, Jack Rance, is prepared to pay good money for just a kiss. But although Minnie has steely nerves, she is a romantic at heart. She knows love will walk in through the door one day. It just hasn’t, yet. Then Dick Johnson, aka the dastardly bandit Ramerrez, arrives in town, and Minnie…Well, you can guess the rest.
Internationally celebrated master of spectacle, Nigel Jamieson, makes his directorial debut for Opera Australia with a new production of Puccini’s Wild West opera, with set designs by Michael Scott-Mitchell and Chief Conductor of Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Arvo Volmer, conducts Puccini’s expressive score.
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Venue: Opera Theatre
Dates: 14 Jul 10 - 6 Aug 10
Duration: approximately three hours including two twenty minute intervals.
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