![]() Soprano Patricia Racette (recently in the Metropolitan Opera's Peter Grimes and Tales of Hoffmann), re-creates the role of Emmeline Mosher, a 13-year-old girl who is sent by her family to work in the Massachusetts textile mills, where she catches the eye of the married factory owner and bears his child. Composer Picker, who lives in NY, has said he was inspired to write the opera when he saw a PBS documentary on the subject. ![]() McClatchy, is based on the novel of the same name by Judith Rossner, about a tragic incident that rocked a small 19th-century New England town. ![]() Not since Ghosts of Versailles has a new American opera been received with the ovation awarded Tobias Picker's Emmeline, which had its world premiere in 1996 at Santa Fe Opera.Īnd now the opera, a real-life story that eerily parallels the Oedipus myth, arrives on the East Coast with its cast nearly intact for four performances at New York City Opera beginning Mar. ![]()
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