Name: A Thousand Acres
Start: 2022-07-09T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-07-22T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Des Moines Metro Opera

Organization

Des Moines Metro Opera

Singer

Elise Quagliata

Ginny

Sara Gartland

Rose

Grace Kahl

Caroline

Roger Honeywell

Larry

Keith Phares

John Moore

Jess

Wu Wei

Marv Carson

Stage director

Kristine McIntyre

Conductor

David Neely

Lighting designer

Kate Ashton

Costume designer

Valérie Bart

Set designer

Luke Cantarella

Project Design

Libretto

Mark Campbell

Kristopher Irmiter

Harold

Jonathan Patton

engelsk

A Thousand Acres

Indianola

United States

A Thousand Acres Kuster

Public

Approved

Video by Estuary Motion StudiosFeaturing Elise Quagliata as "Ginny"Musical excerpt: "Here, Leaving" by Kristin KusterExcerpt from the libretto, A Thousand Ac...

On July 9, 2022, Des Moines Metro Opera will add a new American work to the operatic canon with its world premiere of A Thousand Acres with music by Kristin Kuster and libretto by Mark Campbell.

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres is a modern retelling of Shakespeare's King Lear set on a farm in Iowa in the late 1970s told from the point of view of Ginny, the oldest of three daughters. Larry Cook, a prominent farmer, announces at a family gathering that he has decided to divide his thousand acres between his three daughters. While Ginny and Rose acquiesce to their father's wishes, Caroline demurs and enrages her father. Ginny tries to hold the family together but Rose, recovering from cancer treatment and fearful for the fate of her two daughters, is unrepentant in her criticism both of Caroline's selfishness and Larry's bullying nature. As Larry descends into rage and dementia, all the buried family secrets are finally laid bare.

A Thousand Acres is a family drama writ large. It is a story with great scope and broad appeal with distinctive female characters that explores ideas of family conflict, patriarchy, legacy and the strength and fragility of the ties that bind us together, all told through the eyes of its central female protagonist.

English

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