12 Jun 2010
The Wild West and the superstar Italian composer
http://www.mercurynews.com/music/ci_15245607?nclick_check=1
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A musical challenge to our view of the past
https://vimeo.com/operarara/how-to-rescue-an-opera
http://www.mercurynews.com/music/ci_15245607?nclick_check=1
By Richard Scheinin [Mercury News, 12 June 2010]
When Giacomo Puccini's "The Girl of the Golden West," an opera based on a play by the son of a Gold Rush miner, premiered at the Metropolitan Opera a century ago, the glitterati were there in their finery — the Vanderbilts, the Pierpont Morgans, the Guggenheims, says Laura Basini, a Sacramento State University music historian. It was the very first Italian opera written for an American premiere. There were 55 curtain calls! And they presented Puccini on opening night with a solid silver laurel wreath crafted by Tiffany.