The Girl of the Golden West , Coliseum, London
Coliseum, London: In 1904 Puccini turned a play by David Belasco - Madam Butterfly - into one of his most successful operas, and it was doubtless with the hope of repeating the trick that he also set to music Belasco's Broadway hit The Girl of the Golden West in 1910. After its initial success, though, this second opera has become a runner-up in the Puccini canon, admired by connoisseurs but not really part of t…