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Two-act opera about the life of temperance activist Carrie Nation, commissioned by the University of Kansas for its centennial. The source identifies a love story and folk heritage in the work but gives no version-specific plot details.
Moore’s one-act opera parodies a television soap opera, interrupting the sung action with commercial-style announcements. Its four roles include an announcer, a nurse, a patient and a doctor.
The opera depicts tragedy and romance among Norwegian-American settlers in Dakota Territory in 1873. The listed principal characters include Beret and Per Hansa, their neighbors Hans Olsa and Sorrine, Syvert Tonetsen and Kjersti, and their families.
Baby Doe and Horace Tabor fall in love while Horace is married to Augusta; after he divorces Augusta, the couple marry amid social scandal. Horace’s fortunes decline as Colorado politics shift toward the gold standard, and he dies after a final visit to the opera house he built. Thirty years later, Baby Doe ends the story at the Matchless Mine.
New Hampshire farmer Jabez Stone sells his soul to Mr. Scratch in exchange for prosperity. When the devil comes to collect, Daniel Webster defends Stone in a trial before a jury of historical figures chosen by Scratch, and wins a not-guilty verdict.
After Rome's defeat at Cannae, Fabius Maximus's restless wife Amytis enters Hannibal's camp and seduces him. Her questions about his hatred and pursuit of war persuade him to spare Rome, while he frees two slaves and returns Amytis to her husband.
A two-act, six-scene English-language opera based on Henry James’s novel The Wings of the Dove.
Two-act opera about the life of temperance activist Carrie Nation, commissioned by the University of Kansas for its centennial. The source identifies a love story and folk heritage in the work but gives no version-specific plot details.
Moore’s one-act opera parodies a television soap opera, interrupting the sung action with commercial-style announcements. Its four roles include an announcer, a nurse, a patient and a doctor.
The opera depicts tragedy and romance among Norwegian-American settlers in Dakota Territory in 1873. The listed principal characters include Beret and Per Hansa, their neighbors Hans Olsa and Sorrine, Syvert Tonetsen and Kjersti, and their families.
Baby Doe and Horace Tabor fall in love while Horace is married to Augusta; after he divorces Augusta, the couple marry amid social scandal. Horace’s fortunes decline as Colorado politics shift toward the gold standard, and he dies after a final visit to the opera house he built. Thirty years later, Baby Doe ends the story at the Matchless Mine.
New Hampshire farmer Jabez Stone sells his soul to Mr. Scratch in exchange for prosperity. When the devil comes to collect, Daniel Webster defends Stone in a trial before a jury of historical figures chosen by Scratch, and wins a not-guilty verdict.
After Rome's defeat at Cannae, Fabius Maximus's restless wife Amytis enters Hannibal's camp and seduces him. Her questions about his hatred and pursuit of war persuade him to spare Rome, while he frees two slaves and returns Amytis to her husband.
A two-act, six-scene English-language opera based on Henry James’s novel The Wings of the Dove.