Re: WAYLTL Oct 1

Girls of the Golden West by John Adams (also conducting) on Nonesuch 075597900484. This is the third (2023) iteration of the opera, much leaner and meaner than the first (2017) version, at the price of cutting what was probably the most successful number in 2017, the ballet scene Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance which can be found on a recent Naxos release conducted by the dedicatee Marin Alsop. As usual with Adams (at least what I happened to hear) about one third of the piece is quite intriguing and the rest is a bit, well, meh. The possible exception is Shaker Loops in his early (pre-Nixon-in-China) minimalist days, a truly remarkable suite.