www.operanews.com: THE MAIN EVENT of this year’s season at Santa Fe Opera was the world premiere of Jennifer Higdon’s first opera, Cold Mountain (seen Aug. 5). An incisive sense of danger and instability suffuses the entire opera, based on Charles Frazier’s best-selling 1997 novel about rural life in North Carolina near the end of the American Civil War. Gene Scheer structured his economical libretto around W. P. Inman’s journey home to Cold Mountain after deserting from the Confederate forces; all events prior to this were told in flashback.
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