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The venue is a lovely wooden seat theater with warm acoustics and steeply tiered seating - a museum piece in itself and worth a visit.įeinstein's/54 Below offers series of fresh musicals 7 and 14.Īll performances of “Cold Mountain” will be at the Academy of Music, 240 S. As Blanche de la Force in Poulenc’s “Dialogues des Carmélites” at the Met in 2013, her performances were described by the New York Times as ranging from “beguiling tenderness in moments of composure” to throbbing “with penetrating intensity when Blanche is overcome with anxiety.” Leonard, is similarly in high demand, having appeared on many of the same stages. Inman is worried that he is so changed by his experiences as to be no longer worthy of Ada’s affection. Both have suffered and been transformed by hardships of the war. Inman (played by Nathan Gunn), who deserts his post and travels to reunite with his love, Ada Monroe (Isabel Leonard). The story traces the journey of a wounded Confederate soldier, W.P.

Higdon’s opera was a decade in the making and involved a grueling process the already experienced composer described in one article as “like learning to walk.” The book was subsequently made into a 2003 movie of the same name starring Nicole Kidman and Jude Law. The opera, Higdon’s first, is based on a 1997 historical novel by Charles Frazier that won a National Book Award and spent a year on the New York Times Best Seller list. She received the Pulitzer Prize for music in 2010 for her Violin Concerto and a Grammy award for her Percussion Concerto.

Higdon is a Philadelphia resident and professor of composition at the city’s Curtis Institute of Music. It premiered in Santa Fe in 2015 and will travel to North Carolina in 2017 and Minnesota in 2018. The work was co-commissioned with the Santa Fe Opera. Opera Philadelphia will mount Jennifer Higdon’s “Cold Mountain” in an East Coast premiere, with five performances at the Academy of Music, Feb 5 to 14.

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