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

by George Whitney Martin and George W. Martin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520081234
• ISBN13: 9780520081239
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.3"