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Sister Carrie (opera)

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Sister Carrie is an opera by Robert Livingstone Aldridge to a libretto by Herschel Garfein based upon Theodore Dreiser's 1900 novel of the same name about a country girl's pursuit of the American Dream. The opera premiered in Milwaukee by Florentine Opera on October 7, 2016.[1]

Recording

Released on the Naxos American Classics label, the recording features Adriana Zabala as Carrie, Keith Phares as George Hurstwood, Matt Morgen as Charles Drouet, Alisa Suzanne Jordheim as Lola, Stephen Cunningham as Captain; Florentine Opera, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, conductor: William Boggs

Reception

Reviewer Mark Thomas Ketterson, writing in Opera News, called the new opera "an important addition to the American operatic canon."[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Sister Carrie, Milwaukee, Florentine Opera – October 7, 2016", review by Mark Thomas Ketterson, Opera News, November 2016
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