Girls of the Golden West

Album by John Adams & Los Angeles Philharmonic & John Adams

Girls of the Golden West is an opera by American composer John Adams, premiered in 2017. The work employs Adams's post-minimalist language with rich orchestral colour and expressive vocal writing to examine episodes of American history, representing a later-career engagement with large-scale dramatic narrative in his output.

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    Girls of the Golden West: Act I: Scene 1: It was a driving, vigorous, restless population
    8:56
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    Girls of the Golden West: Act I: Scene 1: Wagon Ride - Ned Peters was a hustler
    5:06
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    Girls of the Golden West: Act I: Scene 2: My name is Joe
    11:01
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    Girls of the Golden West: Act I: Scene 2: Now he consoles himself
    2:36
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    Girls of the Golden West: Act I: Scene 3: A gambler’s life I do admire
    10:49
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    Girls of the Golden West: Act I: Scene 3: Josefa, you remember
    4:14
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    Girls of the Golden West: Act I: Scene 4: It’s bone, it’s backbone
    12:20
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    Girls of the Golden West: Act I: Scene 4: Comin’ up from Red Dog
    3:29
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    Girls of the Golden West: Act II: Scene 1: The Raven
    5:08
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    Girls of the Golden West: Act II: Scene 2: The attack on the Mexicans
    11:04
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    Girls of the Golden West: Act II: Scene 3: It seems like midnight
    7:59
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    Girls of the Golden West: Act II: Scene 3: What is this celebration to me?
    6:57
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    Girls of the Golden West: Act II: Scene 4: This very nearly was the cause
    2:45
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    Girls of the Golden West: Act II: Scene 4: Ven esta noche
    3:02
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    Girls of the Golden West: Act II: Scene 4: Blessed and praised
    0:59
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    Girls of the Golden West: Act II: Scene 4: I’m going far away from my creditors
    8:54
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    Girls of the Golden West: Act II: Scene 5: The Downieville mob
    5:40
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    Girls of the Golden West: Act II: Scene 5: Tú me quieres alba
    6:11
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    Girls of the Golden West: Act II: Scene 5: It’s four long years (Lousy Miner)
    4:37
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    Girls of the Golden West: Act II: Epilogue: Sometimes I lounge forlornly to the window
    4:51

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