Girls of the Golden West 2CD + MP3 Bundle

Girls of the Golden West 2CD + MP3 BundleThis first recording of John Adams 2017 opera, Girls of the Golden West, is his eighth music theater work to be released by Nonesuch. It tells the story of the California Gold Rush not through familiar time worn myth, but in the words and deeds of real people. Longtime Adams collaborator Peter Sellars drew from original sources from the eraletters, journals, newspaper articles, and familiar song lyricsto create the libretto. The composer leads the LA

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stars Kelli O’Hara and Brian d’Arcy James

" The New York Times calls it "beautiful

"It hits you everywhere

"Something close to a masterpiece

Hailed by the Washington Post as “essential for any serious collection of Americana” destined to be "an all-time American classic

the album draws largely on traditional English-Irish-Scottish repertoire to create a transatlantic musical conversation that flirts with psychedelia and folk rock while maintaining its own inimitable identity

antique synthesizers

and guest co-producer Mura Masa

and electronics

and guitarist/trumpeter Michael "McDuck" Olson—worked with Nashville-based producer Dave Cobb (Chris Stapleton

The album also includes an encore