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Vero Beach Opera Presents Puccini’s Girl of the Golden West at VBMA on Sunday, May 17, at 2:30 p.m.

VBMA welcomes Vero Beach Opera’s Master of Ceremonies, Ian Campbell, on Sunday, May 17, for a discussion of the Girl of the Golden West. The opera—the first to have its world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera—confused audiences and critics in 1910. It had a different shape from Butterfly and Tosca, seemed to lack arias, and Puccini was trying to create a new musical style for the 20th century.  "Is it the first spaghetti western, an American opera, an Italian opera set in America, or a story of love,