Santa Fe Opera Orchestra & Miguel Harth-Bedoya - Higdon: Cold Mountain (2016) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Act I Scene 1 Peaches in the summertime (Teague, Owens, Chorus)
02. Act I Scene 2 What were their names (Chorus, Inman, Blind Man)
03. Act I Scene 2 Aria The metal age (Inman, Ada, Teague, Blind Man)
04. Act I Scene 3 I don't like that man (Monroe, Ada, Inman)
05. Act I Scene 4 Who ya' talking to (Ruby, Ada)
06. Act I Scene 5 We once lived in a land of paradise (Veasey, Inman, Home Guard, Laura)
07. Act I Scene 6 Sun's up. You'll eat later (Ruby, Ada)
08. Act I Scene 6 Aria My only teacher was hunger (Ruby, Ada, Inman)
09. Act I Scene 6 Duet Why can't we (Ada, Inman)
10. Act I Scene 7 Mister, how much to ferry me across (Inman, Veasey)
11. Act I Scene 8 Look at me, I'm floating (Lila, Sisters, Claire, Olivia, Katie, Veasey, Inman, Junior)
12. Act I Scene 9 Listen (Ruby, Ada, Stobrod, Teague)
13. Act I Scene 9 Aria A fence is a good thing (Teague, Ada, Ruby, Stobrod)
14. Act I Scene 10 I told you. I'm a preacher! (Veasey, Home Guard Man, Home Guard Men, Federal Chorus, Inman, Chorus)
15. Act I Scene 10 Duet Come back to cold mountain (Ada, Inman)
16. Act II Opening
17. Act II Scene 1 Duet Is that all you got (Lucinda, Inman)
18. Act II Scene 2 Interlude Inman Walking
19. Act II Scene 3 Duet Orion (Ada, Inman)
20. Act II Scene 4 Bless you, Ruby (Ruby, Stobrod, Pangle, Ada, Reid)
21. Act II Scene 5 Your baby sick (Inman, Sara)
22. Act II Scene 6 Funny lookin' scarecrow (Teague, Ruby)
23. Act II Scene 7 Get up! Quick! (Sara, Ethan, Thomas, Charlie, Inman)
24. Act II Scene 8 I should be cryin' but I just feel numb (Ada, Ruby, Inman, Quintet)
25. Act II Scene 9 Howdy, strangers …Keep playin … (Teague, Stobrod, Pangle, Reid, Ruby, Ada)
26. Act II Scene 10 Our beautiful country (Chorus of the Dead, Ruby, Ada)
27. Act II Scene 10 Aria I feel sorry for you (Ada, Ruby)
28. Act II Scene 11 I'm lost (Inman, Ada, Ruby)
29. Act II Scene 12 You just need to rest. We'll talk later (Inman, Ada, Ruby)
30. Act II Scene 12 Tell her (Chorus, Inman, Ada, Veasey, Chain Gang, Lila, Olivia, Claire, Katie, Sara, Soldiers, Ruby, Reid, Ruby, Birch)
31. Act II Scene 13 Epilogue Come on, children (Ruby, Ada)



Originally imported into the US from the European continent, opera was seen by many as an elite art form representing antiquated interests. Nonetheless, the American opera repertoire expanded over the centuries and nowadays, American operas are written by Pulitzer Prize, Grammy Award and Oscar-winning composers, based on award-winning contemporary novels. Their direct and clear connection to modern society has been the inspiration to create PENTATONE's American Opera Series. Cold Mountain, composed by Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer Jennifer Higdon, set to a libretto by Gene Scheer and based on a 1997 National Book Award-winning novel by Charles Frazier, is one of three operas that will be released in this series in 2016. It received its world premiere at The Santa Fe Opera on 1 August 2015 where it was performed by The Santa Fe Opera Orchestra, conducted by Miguel Harth-Bedoya and recorded live for this album. It was co-commissioned by and is a co-production with both Opera Philadelphia and the Minnesota Opera.

„After years of searching for a story that would be the focus of my first opera, I read the first several pages of Charles Frazier’s award-winning Cold Mountain and realized this was it. [...]Looking to confirm my suspicion, I checked and discovered that the [Higdon] family farm was a mere 60 miles, as the crow flies, from Cold Mountain. Writing this opera would be a recollection of the landscape of my formative years…a familiarity that I would welcome in a new-to-me genre.“ (Jennifer Higdon)

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