Cold Mountain opera

Cold Mountain is an American opera in two acts and an epilogue, with music by Jennifer Higdon and the libretto by Gene Scheer. It is based on Charles Frazier's 1997 novel of the same name. The opera received its world premiere at Santa Fe Opera on 1 August 2015. Opera Philadelphia gave its first performance of the opera, in a slightly revised form, on 5 February 2016. North Carolina Opera gave the opera its home state premiere on 28 September 2017. The Minnesota Opera staged the opera in 2018 as part of its New Works Initiative. Cold Mountain was the winner in the category of World Premiere at the International Opera Awards in London in May 2016. In July 2019, Cold Mountain made its West Coast premiere at the Music Academy of the West Summer Festival in Westfield, New Jersey. The Pentatone commercial recording was released in April 2016. It received two Grammy nominations.[1] Cold Mountain is part of the Opera Philadelphia's "American Repertoire Program", a ten-year commitment to produce a contemporary American work each season. In acts 1 and 2, a Confederate soldier decides to desert the Confederate Army and return to his beloved Ada Monroe, who lives at Black Cove, North Carolina. In act 2, Ada meets Solomon Veasey, whom he stops from committing murder.