Performer: Hye Jung Lee

John Adams' opera, in its third revision since its 2017, receives an outstanding concert performance in Walt Disney Concert Hall under the composer's baton. 

Dame Shirley’s texts are here sung by the young American soprano Julia Bullock whose pliable instrument and stylish way with words reveal an ideal storyteller.

Adams and Peter Sellars demand that the audience take a cold, hard look at the Gold Rush and the founding history of California.