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Verdi at the Golden Gate: Opera and San Francisco in the Gold Rush Years

By George Martin
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By George Martin
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Opera is a fragile, complex art, but it flourished extravagantly in San Francisco during the Gold Rush years, a time when daily life in the city was filled with gambling, duels, murder, and suicide. In the history of the United States there has never been a rougher town than Gold Rush San Francisco, yet there has never been a greater frenzy for opera than developed there in these exciting years.

How did this madness for opera take root and grow? Why did the audience's generally drunken, braw...

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Music, Film & Performing ArtsMusicClassical MusicOperaPost-Romantic Classical Music (c. 1860 - c. 1900)Verdi, GiuseppeOpera - General & MiscellaneousItalian Opera