In the first act, laid in the "Polka" bar-room, after a scene of considerable length for the miners (intended, no doubt, to create "atmosphere") there is an episode between Rance and Minnie, in which it develop that Rance wants to marry her, but that she does not care for him. Successful in producing "atmosphere" in "La Bohème," "Tosca," and "Madama Butterfly," Puccini has utterly failed in his effort to do so in his "Girl of the Golden West." Based upon an American play, the scene laid in America and given in America for the first time on any stage, the opera has not been, the mores the pity, a success. Place: A mining camp at the foot of the Cloudy Mountains, California. Time: 1849-1850, the days of the gold fever. JOSE CASTRO, a greaser from Ramerrezs gang. JAKE WALLACE, a travelling camp minstrel Baritone Produced, Metropolitan Opera House, New York, December 10, 1910, with Destinn, Mattfeld, Caruso, Amato, Reiss, Didur, Dinh-Gilly, Pini Corsi, and De Segurola.īILLY JACKRABBIT, an Indian redskin. Opera in three acts by Puccini words by C.
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