Teresa Rietan (below), a Los Angeles scriptwriting assistant, enjoys camping trips to the Southern California desert, where she can bask in the sun on the dry lake bed of El Mirage, near Victorville.īetween flights, stewardess Joyce Anderson delights in speedboating over the clear waters of Lake Tahoe, on the California-Nevada border, a four-hour drive from her apartment in Oakland. The ice-cold waters of a cascade near Mount Hood, Oregon, inspire an impromptu splash session for Sandy Benson (below), seen in close up at right. Sisters Karen and Christy Flagg (below), exploring the redwoods in the Avenue of the Giants area of California’s Humbolt County) are also interested in the arts – Karen in weaving and dance, Christy in painting and photography. Javon Monahan (below, left and right, running along the fog-shrouded Oregon coast near Seaside) is an artist and former student at Portland State University. The below bit of fluff is from the September 1971 bunny.
10 at the War Memorial Opera House details here.A tantalizing blend of beauty and sophistication, these natural beauties glory in their free-spirited way of life. And what comes through is something incredibly genuine.” The opera is close to Adams heart in more ways than one - he's had a cabin for years near Downieville in the Sierra foothills. "And there’s a wonderful sense of humanity, the ability to laugh at oneself. Sellars has plucked the libretto, as he often does, from historical documents, this time from letters and personal accounts from the period. “What people are actually singing are the words of the people who sang them," Adams told me by phone. Montez, toured California gold country and settled for a time in Nevada City, A model for ‘Girls of the Golden West’ by David Gropman (Photo:Scott Wall/SF Opera) The opera features scandal magnet Lola Montez doing her famous spider dance to Adams music. As Adams told me, it's set in a mining camp, a real place called Rich Bar, and the town of Downieville, with a focus on the voices we rarely hear from gold rush days: the wife of a doctor in a mining camp ( Dame Shirley), a Hispanic dance hall owner, a Chinese prostitute, a free black wagon driver. Girls of the Golden West is by Berkeley composer John Adams and librettist Peter Sellars - it's their fourth historical opera, the most recent being Doctor Atomic, which also premiered in San Francisco. This may be the classical event of the year for the Bay Area: the world premiere of a new opera about the California gold rush.
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