![]() ![]() ![]() The setting for the story had a special significance for Higdon, who grew up on a farm in East Tennessee, only 60 miles from the real Cold Mountain in North Carolina. Inman and his journey to find his beloved Ada, a once well-off but now desperate woman who learns to fend for herself with the help of Ruby, a mountain woman. The libretto by Gene Scheer is adapted from the best-selling novel of the same name by Charles Frazier, which tells the story of Civil War deserter W.P. After sell-out performances, the work has since won the 2016 International Opera Award for best world premiere. ![]() Happily, Santa Fe Opera, Opera Philadelphia and Minnesota Opera rescued the commission of this brilliant new work, with the premiere staged last year in 2015 in Santa Fe. The composition got off to a rocky start when the original commission from San Francisco Opera failed to eventuate. Jennifer Higdon is one of the most performed composers in the US, andĬold Mountainis the Pulitzer Prize-winner’s first operatic sojourn. ![]()
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