Opera Lecture on Giacomo Puccini’s “The Girl of the Golden West” | Calif. Historical Society

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Join historians from both San Francisco Opera and the California Historical Society for an engaging presentation on Giacomo Puccini’s opera The Girl of the Golden West. Set during the California Gold Rush, Puccini’s brilliant blazing score sets the scene for a tumultuous love triangle among a crafty criminal, a suspicious sheriff, and a frontier woman with a tender heart who knows how to shoot a gun.

Rife with raucous gunfights and poker games, the work Puccini considered “the best of my operas,” returns to San Francisco for the first time in three decades in celebration of its 100th anniversary. Historians Jim Rawls (CHS) and Laura Basini (SF Opera) will provide insight and historical perspective.

San Francisco Opera’s production of The Girl of the Golden West opens June 9, 2010 and runs through July 2, 2010.

• Tuesday| June 8th | 6-8 p.m.| Free
• Lecture/Discussion on Giacomo Puccini’s The Girl of the Golden West
• Space is limited – Reservations required. RSVP 415-357-1848, ext. 229

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