Opera in the Repertoire · Modern
Girls of the Golden West
Music by John Adams (composer) · premiered 2017 · at War Memorial Opera House
Girls of the Golden West is an opera in two acts with music by John Adams and a libretto by Peter Sellars. The San Francisco Opera commissioned the work jointly with Dallas Opera, the Dutch National Opera (De Nationale Opera) and Teatro La Fenice in Venice. The opera was premiered in San Francisco on November 21, 2017.
The running time is 160 minutes.
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About the Composer
John Adams (composer) is the composer of record for this opera.
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Other Operas by John Adams (composer)
- A Flowering Tree
- I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky (1995)
- El Niño (2000)
- Doctor Atomic (2005)
- Antony and Cleopatra (2022)