The complete online text of The Girl of the Golden West by David Belasco.

David Belasco (1853-1931), American theatrical director-producer and playwright, attempted to bring veracity to the popular melodrama through meticulous detail in setting and lighting. He led in the movement that made the director the theater's dominant...

A phenomenon of the nineteenth century, David Belasco became one of the most powerful people in the American theatre by the turn of the new century. After World War I, as the social and cultural upheavals of a new era forced changes upon the theatrical w...

The fans at San Francisco Opera Dorothy Adelle Kirsten, though born and raised in Montclair, New Jersey, and subsequently a longtime resident of New York City, became America's best-loved California prima donna. It was a remarkable evolution. Kirsten originally wanted to be an...

Puccini and the Girl: History and Reception of The Girl of the Golden West. By Annie J. Randall and Rosalind Gray Davis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. [xv, 241 p. ISBN 0226703894. $35.] Music examples, bibliography, discography, filmography, illustrations, index. Annie...

Like a bad nor'easter, the city's spring music offerings arrive with a roar. At the Met, a revival of Don Carlo, Verdi's most complex masterpiece, has a powerhouse cast led by the gorgeous young American soprano Sondra Radvanovsky. Voice buffs can't wait for March 10,...