Cold Mountain

This listing is in the past

Santa Fe Opera301 Opera Dr, Santa Fe, New Mexico, NM 87506, United States

Dates/times in Denver time zone

Programme

Higdon, Jennifer (b. 1962)

Performers

Santa Fe Opera
Miguel Harth-Bedoya	Conductor
Leonard Foglia	Director
Robert Brill	Set Designer
David C. Woolard	Costume Designer
Isabel Leonard	Mezzo-soprano	Ada
Emily Fons	Soprano	Ruby
Jay Hunter Morris	Tenor	Teague
Roger Honeywell	Tenor	Veasey
Nathan Gunn	Baritone	Inman
Anthony Michaels-Moore	Baritone	Monroe, Pangle
Robert Pomakov	Bass-baritone	Ethan, Owens
Kevin Burdette	Bass	Blind Man, Stobard

Map

Cold Mountain: Higdon's maiden operatic voyage

Michael Wade Simpson, 20th August

There was a nod to John Adams in the score, but also a kind of edgy Americana, complete with powerful writing for male chorus, and an attempt to communicate the flavor of rural North Carolina, not far from where Higdon grew up.

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