"the home of country music pioneers Gene Autry and Patsy Montana. Bradley Kincaid, also at WLS, later worked with the girls in their recordings. They first started recording for Bluebird Records in 1933. They named themselves the Girls of the Golden West, taken from the opera by Puccini, ""The Girl of the Golden West"". They started singing songs such as ""Put My Little Shoes Away"" and ""Ragtime Cowboy Joe"". The Girls of the Golden West were one of the most popular acts of the 1930s and 1940s, and were one of the few women then found performing country music. The"
"Girls of the Golden West (opera) 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 opera is inspired by the 1851/1852 letters of Louise Clappe, who lived for a year and a half in the mining settlement of Rich Bar (now Diamondville, California) during the California Gold Rush. Clappe published the"
"La fanciulla del West La fanciulla del West (""The Girl of the West"") is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by and , based on the play ""The Girl of the Golden West"" by the American author David Belasco. ""Fanciulla"" followed ""Madama Butterfly"", which was also based on a Belasco play. The opera has fewer of the show-stopping highlights that are characteristic of other Puccini works, but is admired for its impressive orchestration and for a score that is more melodically integrated than is typical of his previous work. ""Fanciulla"" displays influences from composers"
"The Girl of the Golden West (play) The Girl of the Golden West is a theatrical play written, produced and directed by David Belasco, set in the California Gold Rush. The four-act melodrama opened at the old Belasco Theatre in New York on November 14, 1905 and ran for 224 performances. Blanche Bates originated the role of The Girl, Robert C. Hilliard played Dick Johnson, and Frank Keenan played Jack Rance. Bates was joined by Charles Millward and Cuyler Hastings for two-week Broadway runs in 1907 and 1908. William Furst composed the play's incidental music. The play toured throughout the"
"deals with the gold rush period. According to Sellars, ""These true stories of the Forty-Niners are overwhelming in their heroism, passion and cruelty, telling tales of racial conflicts, colorful and humorous exploits, political strife and struggles to build anew a life and to decide what it would mean to be American."" Sellars's previous collaborations with Adams have included premiere productions of ""Nixon in China"", ""The Death of Klinghoffer"" and ""Doctor Atomic"" (for which Sellars also wrote the libretto). Girls of the Golden West (opera) Girls of the Golden West is an opera in two acts with music by John Adams"
"productions. He produced music for, or was music director for numerous plays, including a steady stream of dramas produced by David Belasco and Charles Frohman. Two plays by Belasco which had Furst's musical accompaniments, ""Madame Butterfly"" and ""The Girl of the Golden West"", were made into operas by Giacomo Puccini who attended their New York productions. Musicologist Allan W. Atlas has shown that Puccini modeled some music heard in his opera La fanciulla del West on Furst's music. His last theatrical composition was music for ""Joan the Woman"", starring Geraldine Farrar. Furst died in 1917 at his home in Freeport"
"Golden West"". Mara Zampieri Mara Zampieri (born January 30, 1951, in Padua) is an operatic soprano. She trained at Padua Conservatory. She has performed in the opera houses of Europe, including Milan, London, Berlin, Munich, Paris, Zurich, Madrid, Barcelona and Vienna; also in San Francisco, New York, Buenos Aires, and Tokyo. She has performed in more than fifty operatic roles, including twenty-one in operas by Verdi. She favors Italian but she also famously performed in the title role of Richard Strauss's ""Salome"". She can be seen on video as Lady Macbeth opposite Renato Bruson, and as Minnie in ""The Girl"
"for John Adams's opera ""Girls of the Golden West"", and he will direct the premiere at San Francisco Opera in November 2017. Sellars was inspired to the topic whilst researching for production of Giacomo Puccini's opera ""La fanciulla del West"". Sellars has been criticized for straying too far from composers' intentions. György Ligeti was deeply upset at Sellars's 1997 production of his ""Le Grand Macabre"" at the Salzburg Festival. Ligeti, however, was present for the majority of the rehearsals and only complained directly to the press a few days before the opening, causing suspicion that he was only courting controversy"
"La toison d'or (opera) La toison d'or (""The Golden Fleece"") is a French-language opera in three acts by the composer Johann Christoph Vogel, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera) on 5 September 1786. The libretto, by Philippe Desriaux, is based on the legend of Jason and the Golden Fleece. ""La toison d'or"" was the first of Vogel's two operas. The second, ""Démophon"", premiered posthumously in 1789. ""Scene:A plain outside the walls of Colchis.""<br> Jason and his Argonauts have voyaged from Greece for Colchis in search of the Golden Fleece. Jason's wife Queen Hypsipyle has secretly"
"The Nightingale and the Rose (opera) The Nightingale and the Rose (Russian: ""Соловей и роза"" – ""Solovey i roza"") is a chamber opera in one act (five scenes) by Russian composer Elena Firsova (Op. 46, 1990–1991) written to her own English libretto after Oscar Wilde’s story of the same name together with poetry by Christina Rossetti. The opera was written at the request of Paul Esterházy, the director of the Ulm Theatre in Germany. Firsova created the libretto combining the text from Oscar Wilde's fairy-tale, taken from the collection ""The Happy Prince and Other Stories"" (1888), with four poems by"
"of these were ""La Dori"" (Venice, 1663), ""Il pomo d'oro"" (Vienna, 1668) and ""Orontea"" (1656). ""Il pomo d'oro"" (""The Golden Apple"") was written for the wedding in Vienna of Emperor Leopold I in 1666, and first performed in 1668, in a famously lavish production. It was far more elaborate than contemporary Venetian operas, including a large orchestra, numerous choruses, and various mechanical devices used to stage things like gods descending from heaven (""deus ex machina""), naval battles, and storms. ""'Orontea"" was revived seventeen times in the next thirty years, making it one of the most frequently performed operas on the"
"Il pomo d'oro Il pomo d'oro (""The Golden Apple"") is an opera in a prologue and five acts by the Italian composer Antonio Cesti with a libretto by Francesco Sbarra (1611-1668). It was first performed before the imperial court in a specially constructed open-air theatre Vienna in 1668. The work was so long it had to be staged over the course of two days: the Prologue, Acts One and Two were given on July 12; Acts Three, Four and Five on July 14. Originally planned to mark the wedding of the Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I and Margaret Theresa"
"La Croce d'oro La croce d’oro (Italian for ""The Golden Cross"") is an opera in 3 acts by Henrique Oswald to an Italian libretto. It was composed in 1872. No performances of it are registered. The work remains unpublished. ""The Golden Cross"" was the first opera composed by young Oswald. The librettist is not identified. The manuscript score consists of 237 pages. In this work the composer prefers great sonorous masses and a dense orchestral texture. Concerning the voices and their relation with orchestra, it seems that he inclined to the dramatic school of voicing. There are six main characters"
"Hansel and Gretel (opera) Hansel and Gretel (German: ) is an opera by nineteenth-century composer Engelbert Humperdinck, who described it as a """" (fairy-tale opera). The libretto was written by Humperdinck's sister, Adelheid Wette, based on the Grimm brothers' fairy tale ""Hansel and Gretel"". It is much admired for its folk music-inspired themes, one of the most famous being the """" (""Evening Benediction"") from act 2. The idea for the opera was proposed to Humperdinck by his sister, who approached him about writing music for songs that she had written for her children for Christmas based on ""Hansel and Gretel""."
"The Golden Ticket The Golden Ticket is an opera based on Roald Dahl’s classic book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by the contemporary American composer Peter Ash, with a libretto by Donald Sturrock. ""The Golden Ticket"" was commissioned by American Lyric Theater, Lawrence Edelson, Producing Artistic Director; and Felicity Dahl. It premiered at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis on June 13, 2010 in a co-production between OTSL, Ireland’s Wexford Festival Opera, and American Lyric Theater. ""The Golden Ticket"" was originally conceived as a project for London’s Royal National Theatre, but early workshops initiated by the composer and librettist revealed the"
"goddesses try to get their revenge until Jupiter decides to end the confusion, turns to the audience and awards the golden apple to the Empress Margaret Theresa. Il pomo d'oro Il pomo d'oro (""The Golden Apple"") is an opera in a prologue and five acts by the Italian composer Antonio Cesti with a libretto by Francesco Sbarra (1611-1668). It was first performed before the imperial court in a specially constructed open-air theatre Vienna in 1668. The work was so long it had to be staged over the course of two days: the Prologue, Acts One and Two were given on"
"Jane Van Etten Jane Van Etten, sometimes credited under her married name, Jane Van Etten Andrews (born 1871) was an American composer and singer, one of the first female composers in the United States to have an opera produced by a regular opera company. This was ""Guido Ferranti"", a one-act opera to a libretto by Elsie M. Wilbor based on the play ""The Duchess of Padua"" by Oscar Wilde. It was premiered on December 29, 1914, in Chicago by the Century Opera Company at the Auditorium Theater. Hazel Eden was Beatrice and Worthe Faulkner Guido Ferranti; the work was conducted"
"The Girl of the Golden West (1930 film) The Girl of the Golden West is a 1930 American Pre-Code drama film produced and distributed by First National Pictures, a subsidiary of Warner Bros., directed by John Francis Dillon and starring Broadway actress Ann Harding and James Rennie. Ann Harding's then-husband, Harry Bannister, plays the villain Jack Rance. David Belasco wrote, directed, and produced the original play in 1905 which starred Blanche Bates. Two previous silent film versions of the play were made, one by Cecil B. DeMille in 1915 and another starring Sylvia Breamer in 1923. More famously, Belasco's play"
"the West at the Udine Far East Film Festival in 1998. Since then, the film has been shown at various film festivals around the world, notably at the 62nd Venice International Film Festival's ""Secret History of Chinese Cinema"" retrospective. Based on The Phantom of the Opera, a disfigured musical genius roams a traditional Chinese opera house, punishing those who offend him. In this version of Phantom's adaptation, the Phantom teaches a guy, while in the original story Cristine was a female singer. The phantom asks the Opera singer to go to his beloved and sings for her, because he left"
"Michael William Balfe Michael William Balfe (15 May 1808 – 20 October 1870) was an Irish composer, best-remembered for his opera ""The Bohemian Girl"". After a short career as a violinist, Balfe pursued an operatic singing career, while he began to compose. In a career spanning more than 40 years, he composed at least 29 operas, almost 250 songs and other works. He was also a noted conductor, directing Italian Opera at Her Majesty's Theatre for seven years, among other conducting posts. Balfe was born in Dublin, where his musical gifts became apparent at an early age. He received instruction"
"Walter Goetze Walter Wilhelm Goetze [sometimes ""Götze""] (17 April 1883 in Berlin – 24 March 1961 in Berlin) was a German composer of operettas and revues. Goetze began as composer of songs; the first of his many works for the stage was the revue ""Nur nicht drängeln"" (""Don't Rush"") in 1912, followed by his first operetta ""Der liebe Pepi"" (""The Charming Pepi"") in 1913. His most successful works in this form were ""Ihre Hoheit, die Tänzerin"" (1919) which achieved almost 700 performances in Berlin alone, ""Adrienne"" (1926) and ""Der goldene Pierrot"" (1934). Other successful numbers from his other works include"
"Song of the West Song of the West (1930) is an American Pre-Code musical operetta film produced by Warner Bros., and photographed entirely in Technicolor. It was based on the 1928 Broadway musical ""Rainbow"" by Vincent Youmans (music), Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics) and Laurence Stallings (book). It starred John Boles, Joe E. Brown and Vivienne Segal, and was the first all-color all-talking feature to be filmed entirely outdoors. The story takes place in 1849. Captain Stanton (John Boles) has been cited for a court martial because of a misunderstanding over a woman with Major Davolo. As a scout, he is"
"Robert Hood Bowers Robert Hood Bowers (24 May 1877 - 29 December 1941) was an American composer, conductor and musical director of operettas and stage musicals, and a conductor and musical director for radio. He composed the musical scores for some of the most popular silent movies, including ""Aloma of the South Seas"" and ""A Daughter of the Gods"". Born and raised in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, Robert Hood Bowers was the eldest son of Ellen Graham Heyser and Oliver C. Bowers (a district attorney of Franklin County, and nominee for the Democratic Party for Pennsylvania's 17th congressional district for the 1904"
"of significant criticism, the majority of academics and musicians agree in calling it a magnum opus, particularly lauding its craftmanship. The conductor of the work's premiere, Arturo Toscanini, called the opera a ""great symphonic poem"". ""La fanciulla del West"" was commissioned by, and first performed at, the Metropolitan Opera in New York on 10 December 1910 with Met stars Enrico Caruso and Emmy Destinn for whom Puccini created the leading roles of Dick Johnson and Minnie. However, after Puccini saw Gilda dalla Rizza as Minnie at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo in 1921, he remarked, ""At last I have seen my"
"The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical) The Phantom of the Opera is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Charles Hart. Richard Stilgoe and Lloyd Webber wrote the musical's book together. Stilgoe also provided additional lyrics. Based on the eponymous French novel by Gaston Leroux, its central plot revolves around a beautiful soprano, Christine Daaé, who becomes the obsession of a mysterious, disfigured musical genius living in the subterranean labyrinth beneath the Paris Opéra House. The musical opened in London's West End in 1986, and on Broadway in 1988. It won the 1986 Olivier Award"
"Der goldene Drache Der goldene Drache (""The Golden Dragon"") is an opera by Hungarian composer Péter Eötvös to a libretto by Roland Schimmelpfennig, based on his play of the same name. It premiered on 29 June 2014 at the Bockenheimer Depot in Frankfurt, conducted by the composer. Eötvös composed the opera in 2013/14 on a commission by ensemble modern and the Frankfurt Opera, his ninth opera. He had written operas on literary plots before, beginning with his first in 1998, ""Tri sestry"" (""Three Sisters"") after Anton Chekhov's play. The German libretto by Schimmelpfennig is based on his play of the"
"The Rose of Persia The Rose of Persia; ""or, The Story-Teller and the Slave"", is a two-act comic opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by Basil Hood. It premiered at the Savoy Theatre on 29 November 1899, closing on 28 June 1900 after a profitable run of 211 performances. The opera then toured, had a brief run in America and played elsewhere throughout the English-speaking world. The original cast included Savoy Theatre regulars Ellen Beach Yaw, Rosina Brandram, Emmie Owen, Louie Pounds, Isabel Jay, Walter Passmore, Henry Lytton and Robert Evett. Later, Decima Moore joined the cast"
"The Maid of Orleans (opera) The Maid of Orleans (, ""Orleanskaja deva"") is an opera in 4 acts, 6 scenes, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It was composed during 1878–1879 to a Russian libretto by the composer, based on several sources: Friedrich Schiller’s ""The Maid of Orleans"" as translated by Vasily Zhukovsky; Jules Barbier’s ""Jeanne d’Arc"" (""Joan of Arc""); Auguste Mermet’s libretto for his own opera; and Henri Wallon’s biography of Joan of Arc. Dedicated to conductor Eduard Nápravník, this work represents the composer's closest approach to French grand opera, albeit in the Russian language, notably with its inclusion of a"
"The Queen of Golconda Drottningen av Golconda (""The Queen of Golconda"") is a three-act romantic opera by Franz Berwald. The libretto was adapted by the composer from one by Vial and Favières intended for Henri Montan Berton; this had been based on another by Michel-Jean Sedaine. Berwald may have known the Berton opera from when he played in the opera orchestra in Stockholm. The work is the culmination of a project Berwald commenced in 1863 as ""Lochleven Castle"", (based on ""The Abbot"" by Walter Scott). This was considerably revised for a potential production the composer hoped for at the Théâtre"
"London, 1700–1701. Thomas Arne composed a highly successful score to the same libretto in 1742. The opera ""Le Cinesi"" (""The Chinese Women"") by Christoph Willibald Gluck (1754) concludes with a ballet, ""The Judgement of Paris"", sung as a vocal quartet. Francesco Cilea's 1902 opera ""Adriana Lecouvreur"" also includes a ""Judgement of Paris"" ballet sequence. The story is the basis of an earlier opera, ""Il pomo d'oro"", in a prologue and five acts by the Italian composer Antonio Cesti with a libretto by Francesco Sbarra (1611-1668). It was first performed before the imperial court in a specially constructed open-air theatre Vienna"
"Berenice (opera) Berenice (HWV 38) is an opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel to a 1709 Antonio Salvi libretto, ""Berenice, regina d’Egitto"", or ""Berenice, Queen of Egypt"". Handel began the music in December 1736; the premiere took place at Covent Garden Theatre in London on 18 May 1737 — but was unsuccessful, with just three further performances. Set circa 81 B.C., ""Berenice"" traces the life of Cleopatra, who was Berenice III of Egypt and daughter of Ptolemy IX, the main character in another Handel opera, ""Tolomeo"". The German-born Handel, after spending some of his early career composing operas"
"Notre Dame (opera) Notre Dame is a romantic opera by Franz Schmidt, to a libretto by himself and Leopold Wilk (1876-1944), a professional chemist and amateur poet. It is based loosely on the novel ""The Hunchback of Notre-Dame"" by Victor Hugo. The opera was written between 1904 and 1906. Schmidt approached the opera by writing the orchestral parts of the score first, adding the vocal parts in later. He incorporated some material from an unfinished fantasia for piano and orchestra. ""Notre Dame"" was first performed in Vienna on 1 April 1914. The principal female role of Esmeralda was created by"
"Notre Dame (opera) Notre Dame is a romantic opera by Franz Schmidt, to a libretto by himself and Leopold Wilk (1876-1944), a professional chemist and amateur poet. It is based loosely on the novel ""The Hunchback of Notre-Dame"" by Victor Hugo. The opera was written between 1904 and 1906. Schmidt approached the opera by writing the orchestral parts of the score first, adding the vocal parts in later. He incorporated some material from an unfinished fantasia for piano and orchestra. ""Notre Dame"" was first performed in Vienna on 1 April 1914. The principal female role of Esmeralda was created by"