Parece que no le ha ido muy bien a Adams el estreno de
The Girls of the Golden West. Esto tiene que decir el crítico Joshua Kosman del SF Chronicle (
http://www.sfgate.com/music/article/Wit ... 378363.php)
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Bloated, repetitive, self-righteous and dull, this commission by the San Francisco Opera [...] represents a miscalculation of astonishing dimensions.
It’s a portrait of Gold Rush California inhabited by pasteboard figures and disembodied political mouthpieces. It jettisons actual drama in favor of endless travelogue, time-wasting asides and disjointed narrative logic.
Hay bastante más:
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And for all its stated intent to present a warts-and-all evocation of life in the Sierra Nevada of the 1850s, the piece doesn’t even conjure up that milieu with much more distinctiveness than a highbrow Yosemite Sam cartoon. Say what you will about the historical absurdities of Puccini’s “Girl of the Golden West,” with its laughable Italian miners and its singular heroine, but that work — to which Adams and Sellars offer an ill-judged poke in the eye — at least trades in verisimilitude for genuine emotion.
Parece culpar en gran parte al libreto y a Sellars en particular (se lamenta del retiro de Alice Goodman, libretista de
Nixon in China).
En
Bachtrack le dan 4 estrellas, pero leyendo la crítica parece más bien que el crítico se ha aburrido pero valora la «importancia» de la obra. Por ejemplo
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For all its narrative power, Girls of the Golden West suffers from two problems which I believe to be significant. The first is that the vast majority of the text is narration – and unlike, say, Il trovatore, which has been accused of the same thing, the majority of that is spoken by the narrator directly to the audience, not to the other characters. Act I, where we are being introduced to the scene and the characters involved, began to feel like a very long history lecture.
Leyendo estos comentarios, lamento algo menos haber cancelado mi viaje a San Francisco por Acción de Gracias.