![]() ![]() Back in Fayette, she gives up the child for adoption and lives alone for years. She is seduced, becomes pregnant, and flees in shame. This is the story: Emmeline Mosher, a poor farm girl, comes to the weaving mills in Lowell, Mass., before the Civil War. It spoke to me directly on every conceivable level.” ![]() I had to write Emmeline -I had no choice. Nothing like that had happened before Emmeline. “I was channel-surfing and just happened upon it,” he says. “It shows that public television is so important, because it’s capable of generating art.”Ī recognized symphonic composer, Picker had been looking for the story for an opera for eight years when he came across a rerun of the American Experience documentary “Sins of Our Mothers” in August 1990. “I’m very happy that it’s coming full circle,” says Picker. The musical retelling will be taped later this week during the world premiere of Tobias Picker’s new opera, Emmeline, at the Santa Fe Opera. Not yet in costume, Curt Peterson and Patricia Racette rehearse for Emmeline.Ī local tale from Fayette, Maine, that came to public TV seven years ago in an American Experience documentary will return next year as an opera on Great Performances. ![]()
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