{"type":"link","asset_type":"article","version":"1.0","cache_age":3600,"provider_name":"CANVAS Arts","provider_url":"https:\/\/artscanvas.org","title":"In John Adams' new Gold Rush opera, cultures clash with a tragic ending","publication_date":"November 21, 2017","summary":"For contemporary composer John Adams, it was three notes that launched his latest opera: the sound of a pick axe \"chipping away at stone.\" Premiering at the San Francisco Opera, \"Girls of the Golden West,\" a collaboration with director Peter Sellars, is a story of high hopes and a shattered American dream set during the California Gold Rush of the 1850s. Jeffrey Brown reports.","author_name":"By Jeffrey Brown, Jaywon Choe, Mike Fritz","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/cdn.artscanvas.org\/static\/2017\/11\/23079ee8602a336034339054c18c1389-newnote6-1024x576.jpg","thumbnail_height":576,"thumbnail_width":1024}