Selllers also used The Shirley Letters as a point of reference-a collection of correspondence by Louise Clappe, a.k.a. Girls of the Golden West is set in the historic mining camps of Rich Bar and Downieville which swelled suddenly with thousands of people, eager for a new life during the mid-19th century.Director Peter Sellars drew inspiration from a vast number of Gold Rush sources such as the diaries of Chilean miners, poetry of Chinese and Argentinian settlers, songs of the period, and Frederick Douglass' speech, What to the slave is the fourth of July, Mark Twain's Roughing It. Yet another star of the show is the location itself. The cast goes on to include a barrage of chanteuses including J'Nai Bridges, Paul Appleby, Hye Jung Lee, Elliot Madore and dancer, Lorena Feijóo. The production marks the debuts of young, quickly rising opera stars, Julia Bullock, Davóne Tines, Ryan McKinny and conductor Grant Gershon, who had led numerous orchestras across the country from the Los Angeles Philharmonic to the National Symphony Orchestra. The newest opera by composer John Adams, with libretto by director Peter Sellars, has been heralded as "the most eagerly-anticipated new opera of the season." The San Francisco Opera is bringing tales of 1850s California to audiences this month with Girls of the Golden West, premiering November 21. Take a step back in time to see what life during the Gold Rush was really like.
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