Similar to the Shakespeare play that inspired it, the decision triggers a cavalcade of tragedy. Smiley's original 1991 work is a female-focused retelling of Shakespeare's "King Lear." The novel tells the story of the Cook family, whose patriarch, Larry, decides to hand over his farm to his three daughters: Ginny, Rose and Caroline.
So "A Thousand Acres" became DMMO's first new, main-stage opera since 1986, when the company commissioned an adaptation of "The Tempest."Įlise Quagliata plays Ginny in "A Thousand Acres," a new opera in the Des Moines Metro Opera's 2022 season. “We knew that we wanted to write a new piece for the 50th anniversary," he said. “We wanted to pick a story that would be our story to tell, but would also have some recognizability to it." The new opera opened on July 9 and has one performance through July 22.ĭMMO decided to commission the novel in 2018 as it considered how to celebrate the opera company's 50 years, said Michael Egel, the general and artistic director at the opera. The show is in the middle of its debut run at Indianola's Blank Performing Arts Center as part of the Des Moines Metro Opera's 50th anniversary season.
McIntyre and her collaborators wanted to create a new opera, adapted from Jane Smiley's book, "A Thousand Acres." The results speak for themselves. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.As the show's director, Kristine McIntyre, observed, “It’s not every day a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist hands over her book to you and lets you do what you want with it." An ambitious reimagining of Shakespeare' s King Lear cast upon a typical American community in the late twentieth century, A Thousand Acres takes on themes of truth, justice, love, and pride, and reveals the beautiful yet treacherous topography of humanity. This sets off a chain of events that brings dark truths to light and explodes long-suppressed emotions. When the youngest objects, she is cut out of his will.
A successful Iowa farmer decides to divide his farm between his three daughters.
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