![]() The most luscious is the California gold rush opera, The Girl of the Golden West (1910), based on David Belasco’s play, which Puccini saw on Broadway.Īfter a hurricane gust across the orchestra – in the form of a rushing upward scale almost too swift to register – crunching chords open out into a broad, grand-landscape melody, catchy, folksy and doused with terrible nostalgia. Butterfly’s quicksilver chatter takes us straight to the heart of a sinister, unfamiliar orient. Bohème leaps in mid-stream, rugged, boisterous, beady. Tosca crashes to life with fortissimo chords of fate. If Puccini was good at endings, he was even better at beginnings. Susan Bullock as Minnie ‘radiates naturalness and humanity’ in The Girl of the Golden West. ![]()
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