Girl of the Golden West, The

In the new revival of “The Girl of the Golden West,” the world’s first spaghetti Western, LoBianco rides Romeo across the stage in the third act, on her way to rescue her lover from a hangman’s noose.

Based on David Belasco's The Girl of the Golden West, the libretto is only mildly mawkish and the orchestral writing, starting with a shocking splayed orchestral chord, is among Puccini's most impassioned.

At a certain moment in the second act of The Girl of the Golden West the wind-storm was the real actor in the scene, and the hero and the heroine were but mutes or audience to the act.