Opera Australia - The Girl of the Golden West Tickets

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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.

Puccini’s The Girl of the Golden West is an irresistible mixture of the Old World and New. The setting is the stuff of Hollywood westerns, the action has all the ingredients of Italian romantic opera, and the music has a startling originality. The orchestration is as finely-wrought as Debussy, the melodies span the grand drama with an almost Wagnerian intensity, and there is the emotional immediacy that is Puccini.

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. It is no small undertaking. He will direct a huge ensemble cast which includes Lisa Gasteen, Dennis O’Neill and John Wegner to create Puccini’s expansive web of characters in a visually rich evocation of frontier life. Chief Conductor of Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Arvo Volmer, conducts Puccini’s expressive score.

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