Tobias Picker: "Emmeline" with Patricia Racette

"Emmeline" an opera in two acts by Tobias Picker. Directed by Francesca Zambello. Picker's first opera, commissioned by the Santa Fe Opera company and premiered in 1996. Based on the book Emmeline by Judith Rossner with a libretto by JD McClatchey, it is the story of a 19th century Maine woman who has an illegitimate son who is taken away from her just after birth and raised by others; twenty years later she unwittingly marries him and, when the secret is discovered, she is abandoned by her son and ostracized in her town until death.

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Music

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• classical
• opera
• Tobias
• Picker
• JD
• McClatchy
• Francesca
• Zambello
• Patricia
• Racette
• Emmeline